Bill Text: NY S00159 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers receiving comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grants, shall be eligible for state aid for indigent care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00159-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           159
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  diagnostic  and
          treatment  centers  providing  care to the indigent which are eligible
          for the allocation of state funds
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 2 of section 2807-p of the
     2  public health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter  58  of
     3  the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  "Eligible diagnostic and treatment centers", for purposes of this
     5  section, shall mean voluntary non-profit and publicly sponsored diagnos-
     6  tic and treatment centers providing a  comprehensive  range  of  primary
     7  health  care  services,  or  is  a freestanding diagnostic and treatment
     8  center receiving a comprehensive  family  planning  reproductive  health
     9  services  grant  from  the department, which can demonstrate losses from
    10  disproportionate share of uncompensated care during a  base  period  two
    11  years  prior to the grant period; provided that for periods on and after
    12  January first, two thousand four an eligible  diagnostic  and  treatment
    13  center  shall not include any voluntary non-profit diagnostic and treat-
    14  ment center controlling, controlled by or under common  control  with  a
    15  health  maintenance  organization,  as  defined  by  subdivision  one of
    16  section forty-four hundred one of this chapter;  provided  further  that
    17  for  purposes  of  this section, a health maintenance organization shall
    18  not include a prepaid health services plan licensed pursuant to  section
    19  forty-four  hundred  three-a  of  this chapter. For periods on and after
    20  July first, two thousand three, the base period  and  the  grant  period
    21  shall be the calendar year.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  2.  Paragraph  (c) of subdivision 3 of section 2807-p of the public
     2  health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws
     3  of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  To  be  eligible  for an allocation of funds or a rate adjustment
     5  pursuant to this section, a diagnostic and treatment center must provide
     6  a comprehensive range of primary health care services,  or  is  a  free-
     7  standing diagnostic and treatment center receiving a comprehensive fami-
     8  ly  planning reproductive health services grant from the department, and
     9  must demonstrate that a minimum of five percent of total  clinic  visits
    10  reported  during the applicable base year period were to uninsured indi-
    11  viduals. The commissioner may retrospectively reduce the allocations  of
    12  funds or the rate adjustments to a diagnostic and treatment center if it
    13  is  determined that provider management actions or decisions have caused
    14  a significant reduction for the grant period in the delivery of  compre-
    15  hensive  primary health care services to uncompensated care residents of
    16  the community.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.