Bill Text: NY A08170 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt; defines "medical debt".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - ordered to third reading rules cal.493 [A08170 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08170-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8170

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 18, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting state-
          operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt

          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 51
     2  to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 51
     4         PROHIBITION ON STATE-OPERATED HOSPITALS SUING PATIENTS FOR
     5                                MEDICAL DEBT
     6  Section 5100. Prohibition on state-operated hospitals suing patients for
     7                  medical debt.
     8    § 5100. Prohibition on state-operated  hospitals  suing  patients  for
     9  medical  debt.  1.  No  state university health care facility authorized
    10  under article eight of the education law,  cancer  institute  authorized
    11  under  article  ten-C of the public authorities law, or hospital author-
    12  ized under section twenty-six hundred of this chapter shall pursue liti-
    13  gation in civil or supreme court against a patient for the pursuit of  a
    14  medical debt.
    15    2.  For  the  purposes  of this section, the term "medical debt" shall
    16  mean an obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay any amount
    17  related to the receipt of health care  services,  products,  or  devices
    18  provided  to  a person by a hospital licensed under article twenty-eight
    19  of this chapter, a health care professional authorized under title eight
    20  of the education law or an ambulance  service  certified  under  article
    21  thirty of this chapter.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13371-02-3