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                                   2546
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. HANNON, DeFRANCISCO, GOLDEN, LAVALLE -- read twice
   and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 474 of the laws of 1996, amending the  education
   law and other laws relating to rates for residential healthcare facil-
   ities, in relation to directing the department of health to make addi-
   tional  payments  for  inpatient  services  to  certain public general
   hospitals
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 1 of section 212 of chapter
 474 of the laws of 1996, amending  the  education  law  and  other  laws
 relating  to  rates for residential healthcare facilities, as amended by
 section 1 of part D of chapter 59 of the laws of  2016,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law or regulation to
 the  contrary,  effective beginning August 1, 1996, for the period April
 1, 1997 through March 31, 1998, April 1, 1998 for the  period  April  1,
 1998  through  March  31,  1999, August 1, 1999, for the period April 1,
 1999 through March 31, 2000, April 1, 2000, for the period April 1, 2000
 through March 31, 2001, April 1, 2001, for  the  period  April  1,  2001
 through  March  31,  2002,  April  1, 2002, for the period April 1, 2002
 through March 31, 2003, and for the state fiscal year beginning April 1,
 2005 through March 31, 2006, and for the  state  fiscal  year  beginning
 April  1,  2006  through  March  31, 2007, and for the state fiscal year
 beginning April 1, 2007 through March 31, 2008, and for the state fiscal
 year beginning April 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009, and for  the  state
 fiscal  year beginning April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010, and for the
 state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2010 through March  31,  2016,  and
 for  the  state  fiscal  year  beginning April 1, 2016 through March 31,
 2019, the department of health is [authorized] REQUIRED  to  pay  public
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 general  hospitals,  as defined in subdivision 10 of section 2801 of the
 public health law, operated by the state of New York  or  by  the  state
 university  of  New  York or by a county, which shall not include a city
 with  a  population  of  over one million, of the state of New York, and
 those public general hospitals located in the county of Westchester, the
 county of Erie or the county of Nassau, additional  payments  for  inpa-
 tient hospital services as medical assistance payments pursuant to title
 11  of  article  5  of the social services law for patients eligible for
 federal financial participation under title XIX of  the  federal  social
 security  act  in  medical  assistance  pursuant to the federal laws and
 regulations governing disproportionate share payments to  hospitals  [up
 to]  OF  one  hundred  percent  of  each  such public general hospital's
 medical assistance and uninsured patient losses after all other  medical
 assistance,  including  disproportionate  share  payments to such public
 general hospital for 1996, 1997, 1998, and  1999,  based  initially  for
 1996  on  reported  1994 reconciled data as further reconciled to actual
 reported 1996 reconciled data, and for 1997 based initially on  reported
 1995  reconciled  data  as  further  reconciled  to actual reported 1997
 reconciled data, for 1998 based initially on  reported  1995  reconciled
 data  as further reconciled to actual reported 1998 reconciled data, for
 1999 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled data as further  recon-
 ciled  to actual reported 1999 reconciled data, for 2000 based initially
 on reported  1995  reconciled  data  as  further  reconciled  to  actual
 reported 2000 data, for 2001 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled
 data  as further reconciled to actual reported 2001 data, for 2002 based
 initially on reported 2000 reconciled  data  as  further  reconciled  to
 actual reported 2002 data, and for state fiscal years beginning on April
 1,  2005,  based  initially  on reported 2000 reconciled data as further
 reconciled to actual reported data for 2005, and for state fiscal  years
 beginning  on April 1, 2006, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled
 data as further reconciled to actual reported data for 2006,  for  state
 fiscal  years  beginning  on  and  after April 1, 2007 through March 31,
 2009, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled data as further recon-
 ciled to actual reported data for 2007 and 2008, respectively, for state
 fiscal years beginning on and after April 1, 2009,  based  initially  on
 reported  2007  reconciled  data,  adjusted for authorized Medicaid rate
 changes applicable to the state fiscal year, and as  further  reconciled
 to  actual  reported  data for 2009, for state fiscal years beginning on
 and after April 1, 2010, based initially  on  reported  reconciled  data
 from  the  base  year  two years prior to the payment year, adjusted for
 authorized Medicaid rate changes applicable to the  state  fiscal  year,
 and  further  reconciled to actual reported data from such payment year,
 and to actual reported data for each respective succeeding  year.    The
 payments  may be added to rates of payment or made as aggregate payments
 to an eligible public general hospital.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.