Bill Text: NY A02981 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing the "health care information management act"; requires an annual report by the commissioner to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A02981 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02981-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2981
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, ARROYO, MOSLEY, BLAKE, ORTIZ, COOK, D'URSO
          --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, RIVERA -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  enacting  the
          health care information management act
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  article
     2  8-A to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 8-A
     4                                 HEALTH CARE
     5                         INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ACT
     6  Section 820. Short title.
     7          821. Compilation of data.
     8          822. Presentation of data.
     9          823. Annual report.
    10    §  820.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
    11  "health care information management act".
    12    § 821. Compilation of data. The commissioner shall establish rules and
    13  regulations requiring every public and private hospital, as  defined  in
    14  subdivision  one of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, in
    15  conjunction with emergency and other medical services,  to  compile  the
    16  following  and  submit such data in a form useable for such purposes and
    17  tallied by census tract, annually to the department:
    18    1. With regard to emergency medical services: (a) The length  of  time
    19  between  each  individual's call to 911 and such individual's arrival at
    20  the emergency room;
    21    (b) The length of time between, but not limited to arrival and  admis-
    22  sion at such hospital regardless of method of arrival, which may include
    23  but not be limited to walk-ins and arrival via ambulance;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (c)  The  number of patients treated and released without admission to
     2  such hospital;
     3    (d)  The total amount of time between an individual's admission to the
     4  emergency room and obtaining a bed on the hospital floor;
     5    2. With regard to other medical services: (a) The total wait time  for
     6  all  patients  to  receive  a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such
     7  hospital;
     8    (b) The total wait time for all pregnant women, pre  and  post-partum,
     9  to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such hospital;
    10    (c)    The  percentage  of women admitted, in labor with no pre-partum
    11  care;
    12    (d) The number of births;
    13    (e) The number of fatalities due to asthma;
    14    (f) The number of fatalities as a result of pulmonary diseases;
    15    (g) The number of patients with any form of cardiac disease; and
    16    (h) Any additional data  the  commissioner  deems  pertinent  to  such
    17  compilation of data.
    18    §  822.    Presentation  of  data.  Data  from all individual patients
    19  compiled under section eight hundred twenty-one of this article shall be
    20  placed into one of the following categories based on  each  individual's
    21  current insurance status:
    22    1. Uninsured;
    23    2. Medicare recipient:
    24    (a) Part A;
    25    (b) Part B;
    26    (c) Part C; or
    27    (d) Part D;
    28    3. Medicaid recipient;
    29    4. Insured with an employer-driven insurance plan; or
    30    5. Insured with a metal level of:
    31    (a) Bronze;
    32    (b) Silver;
    33    (c) Gold; or
    34    (d) Platinum.
    35    §  823. Annual report. On or before the first of January, beginning in
    36  two thousand twenty-one and  every  year  thereafter,  the  commissioner
    37  shall  submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and
    38  the speaker of the assembly, a report of the compiled data  outlined  in
    39  section eight hundred twenty-one of this article.
    40    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    41  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    42  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
    43  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    44  authorized to be made on or before such effective date.