Bill Text: NY A06576 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires not-for-profit hospitals inform patients that low to moderate-income persons may qualify for help with medical bills through such hospitals' charitable programs by disclosing such information to patients, posting such information conspicuously, and through social workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A06576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06576-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6576

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring not-for-
          profit hospitals inform patients that low to  moderate-income  persons
          may  qualify for help with medical bills through such hospitals chari-
          table programs

          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 section
     2  2803-bb to read as follows:
     3    § 2803-bb. Disclosure of charitable programs.  All hospitals organized
     4  pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law or which meets the quali-
     5  fications of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code shall:
     6    (a) disclose to all patients and any  patient's  authorized  represen-
     7  tative  that such hospital has charitable programs for low and moderate-
     8  income persons to help with medical bills including, but not limited to,
     9  the charitable programs information and  contact  information  regarding
    10  such programs.
    11    (b)  post  conspicuously  on such hospital's website, lobby areas, and
    12  other areas where patients could view the post that  such  hospital  has
    13  charitable  programs  for  low  and moderate-income persons to help with
    14  medical bills including, but not limited  to,  the  charitable  programs
    15  information and contact information regarding such programs.
    16    (c) post conspicuously on the first page of any medical bill issued by
    17  such  hospital and on any intake document, including electronic, digital
    18  or any other method used by such hospital for  such  documents,  in  the
    19  same  font  size and format as such bill or intake document, as applica-
    20  ble, a notice  that such hospital has charitable programs  for  low  and
    21  moderate-income  persons  to  help with medical bills including, but not
    22  limited to, the charitable programs information and contact  information
    23  regarding such programs.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01742-01-3
        A. 6576                             2

     1    (d)  inform all social workers in such hospital that such hospital has
     2  charitable programs for low and moderate-income  persons  to  help  with
     3  medical  bills  including,  but  not limited to, the charitable programs
     4  information and contact information regarding  such  programs  and  such
     5  social workers shall disclose such information.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     7  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     8  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     9  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    10  completed on or before such effective date.