NY State Senate Bill 2017-S159

Senate Bill S159

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 03, 2018	referred to health
May 23, 2017	reported and committed to finance
Jan 04, 2017	referred to health

Votes

- May 23, 2017 - Health Committee Vote
  S159
  
  9
  
  Aye
  
  6
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Health Committee Vote: May 23, 2017
      
      aye (9)
      
      Hannon
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Larkin
      
      Montgomery
      
      Persaud
      
      Rivera
      
      Stavisky
      
      Valesky
      
      nay (6)
      
      Felder
      
      Golden
      
      Little
      
      Murphy
      
      Ritchie
      
      Tedisco
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Jacobs
      
      Seward

2017-S159 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3693
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2807-p, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: A9581
2015-2016: S8214, A3560
2019-2020: S470, A1080

2017-S159 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S159 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S159

 TITLE OF BILL :

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

 PURPOSE :

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

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

This bill seeks to make Planned Parenthood's freestanding Article 28
clinics eligible for bad debt and charity care funds. It would add to
the definition of "eligible diagnostic and treatment centers" found
under the public health law so that the law will include freestanding
diagnostic and treatment centers receiving a comprehensive family
planning reproductive health services grant from the department.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Indigent care funds, also known as bad debt and charity care funds,

support the State's goal of providing equal and broad access to
primary care services to the indigent by offsetting what would
otherwise be significant losses on the part of primary care clinics.
Each year the State appropriates about $55 million for this purpose.

The first and often only place that people access any care is a
Planned Parenthood freestanding Article 28 clinic. In fact, more and
more women and men are making their critical, initial contact with a
medical professional at these clinics.

Despite fulfilling the State's goal of providing the indigent with
initial access to basic medical services, New York's Planned
Parenthood clinics are ineligible for indigent care funds. Therefore,
these clinics must bear an unequal and onerous burden in covering the
costs of these services.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-2016: S8214

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

To be determined

 LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

To be determined.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect on April 1, 2018.

2017-S159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    159
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 2 of section 2807-p of the
 public health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter  58  of
 the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  "Eligible diagnostic and treatment centers", for purposes of this
 section, shall mean voluntary non-profit and publicly sponsored diagnos-
 tic and treatment centers providing a  comprehensive  range  of  primary
 health  care  services,  OR  IS  A FREESTANDING DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT
 CENTER RECEIVING A COMPREHENSIVE  FAMILY  PLANNING  REPRODUCTIVE  HEALTH
 SERVICES  GRANT  FROM  THE DEPARTMENT, which can demonstrate losses from
 disproportionate share of uncompensated care during a  base  period  two
 years  prior to the grant period; provided that for periods on and after
 January first, two thousand four an eligible  diagnostic  and  treatment
 center  shall not include any voluntary non-profit diagnostic and treat-
 ment center controlling, controlled by or under common  control  with  a
 health  maintenance  organization,  as  defined  by  subdivision  one of
 section forty-four hundred one of this chapter;  provided  further  that
 for  purposes  of  this section, a health maintenance organization shall
 not include a prepaid health services plan licensed pursuant to  section
 forty-four  hundred  three-a  of  this chapter. For periods on and after
 July first, two thousand three, the base period  and  the  grant  period
 shall be the calendar year.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02160-01-7

 S. 159                              2
 
   §  2.  Paragraph  (c) of subdivision 3 of section 2807-p of the public
 health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws
 of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   (c)  To  be  eligible  for an allocation of funds or a rate adjustment
 pursuant to this section, a diagnostic and treatment center must provide
 a comprehensive range of primary health care services,  OR  IS  A  FREE-
 STANDING DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER RECEIVING A COMPREHENSIVE FAMI-
 LY  PLANNING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES GRANT FROM THE DEPARTMENT, and
 must demonstrate that a minimum of five percent of total  clinic  visits
 reported  during the applicable base year period were to uninsured indi-
 viduals. The commissioner may retrospectively reduce the allocations  of
 funds or the rate adjustments to a diagnostic and treatment center if it
 is  determined that provider management actions or decisions have caused
 a significant reduction for the grant period in the delivery of  compre-
 hensive  primary health care services to uncompensated care residents of
 the community.
   § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.

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