Assembly Bill A3511A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to adding an acute children's hospital to the term enhanced safety net hospital

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A3511 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3530
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A9696, S7700

2021-A3511 - Summary

Adds an acute children's hospital licensed by the department primarily for the provision of pediatric and neonatal services to the term enhanced safety net hospital.

2021-A3511 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3511
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PEOPLES-STOKES,  ABINANTI  --  read once and
   referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  adding  an  acute
   children's hospital to the term enhanced safety net hospital
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34 of section  2807-c  of  the
 public  health law, as added by section 3 of part K of chapter 57 of the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) For the purposes of this subdivision, "enhanced safety net  hospi-
 tal" shall mean a hospital which:
   (i) in any of the previous three calendar years, has met the following
 criteria:
   (A)  not  less  than  fifty  percent of the patients it treats receive
 medicaid or are medically uninsured;
   (B) not less than  forty  percent  of  its  inpatient  discharges  are
 covered by medicaid;
   (C) twenty-five percent or less of its discharged patients are commer-
 cially insured;
   (D)  not  less than three percent of the patients it provides services
 to are attributed to the care of uninsured patients; and
   (E) provides care to uninsured patients in its emergency room,  hospi-
 tal  based  clinics and community based clinics, including the provision
 of important community services, such as dental care and prenatal care;
   (ii) is a public hospital operated by a county,  municipality,  public
 benefit corporation or the state university of New York;
   (iii)  IS  AN  ACUTE  CHILDREN'S  HOSPITAL  LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT
 PRIMARILY FOR THE PROVISION OF PEDIATRIC AND NEONATAL SERVICES FOR WHICH
 A DISCRETE INSTITUTIONAL COST REPORT WAS  FILED  FOR  THE  TWO  THOUSAND
 SEVENTEEN  CALENDAR YEAR, AND WHICH HAS MEDICAID DISCHARGES IN EXCESS OF
 FIFTY PERCENT OF ITS TOTAL DISCHARGES;
   (IV) is federally designated as a critical access hospital; or
   [(iv)] (V) is federally designated as a sole community hospital.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
              

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2021-A3511A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3530
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A9696, S7700

2021-A3511A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds an acute children's hospital licensed by the department primarily for the provision of pediatric and neonatal services to the term enhanced safety net hospital.

2021-A3511A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3511--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, ABINANTI, WALLACE -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the  Commit-
   tee  on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  adding  an  acute
   children's hospital to the term enhanced safety net hospital
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34 of section  2807-c  of  the
 public  health law, as added by section 3 of part K of chapter 57 of the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) For the purposes of this subdivision, "enhanced safety net  hospi-
 tal" shall mean a hospital which:
   (i) in any of the previous three calendar years, has met the following
 criteria:
   (A)  not  less  than  fifty  percent of the patients it treats receive
 medicaid or are medically uninsured;
   (B) not less than  forty  percent  of  its  inpatient  discharges  are
 covered by medicaid;
   (C) twenty-five percent or less of its discharged patients are commer-
 cially insured;
   (D)  not  less than three percent of the patients it provides services
 to are attributed to the care of uninsured patients; and
   (E) provides care to uninsured patients in its emergency room,  hospi-
 tal  based  clinics and community based clinics, including the provision
 of important community services, such as dental care and prenatal care;
   (ii) is a public hospital operated by a county,  municipality,  public
 benefit corporation or the state university of New York;
   (iii)  IS  AN  ACUTE  CHILDREN'S  HOSPITAL  LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT
 PRIMARILY FOR THE PROVISION OF PEDIATRIC AND NEONATAL SERVICES FOR WHICH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05316-02-2
              

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