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                             February 10, 2020
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 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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  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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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