Bill Text: NY A05542 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish a medicaid reimbursement rate of nine hundred sixty dollars per treatment for outpatient hyperbaric therapy, which rate shall be applied retroactively for all hyperbaric therapy treatment provided since 1996 by hospitals outside of New York city in a county of more than one million three hundred thousand persons as determined by the two thousand decennial federal census.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to health [A05542 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05542-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5542
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to medicaid
reimbursement for outpatient hyperbaric therapy
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 2807 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO
4 THE CONTRARY, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH A MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT
5 RATE OF NINE HUNDRED SIXTY DOLLARS PER TREATMENT FOR OUTPATIENT HYPER-
6 BARIC THERAPY AND SUCH RATE SHALL BE APPLIED RETROACTIVELY FOR ALL
7 HYPERBARIC THERAPY TREATMENT PROVIDED SINCE NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-SIX
8 BY HOSPITALS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN A COUNTY OF MORE THAN
9 ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND PERSONS AS DETERMINED BY THE TWO
10 THOUSAND DECENNIAL FEDERAL CENSUS.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08991-01-5
