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                                   8135
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to general hospital
   cost reports
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 2807 of the public health law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
   22. (A) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "INSTITUTIONAL COST REPORTS"
 SHALL MEAN THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT FORMS THAT  COVER
 A CONSECUTIVE TWELVE-MONTH PERIOD OF A GENERAL HOSPITAL'S OPERATIONS AND
 ARE SUBMITTED BY GENERAL HOSPITALS TO THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDI-
 CAID SERVICES PURSUANT TO 42 CFR § 413.24.
   (B)  GENERAL  HOSPITALS  SHALL  POST  PUBLICLY  ON THEIR WEBSITE, IN A
 CONSPICUOUS PLACE, ITS INSTITUTIONAL COST REPORTS, AS  DEFINED  BY  THIS
 SUBDIVISION,  AT  THE  TIME  AND  IN  THE MANNER SUCH INSTITUTIONAL COST
 REPORTS ARE SUBMITTED TO THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES,
 WHICH SHALL BE ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DAY OF THE  FIFTH  MONTH  FOLLOWING
 THE  CLOSE OF THE PERIOD COVERED BY SUCH REPORT, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 FOR COST REPORTS ENDING ON A DAY OTHER THAN THE LAST DAY OF  THE  MONTH,
 SUCH REPORTS SHALL BE DUE TO THE DEPARTMENT ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DAYS AFTER
 THE LAST DAY OF THE COST REPORTING PERIOD.
   (C)  GENERAL  HOSPITALS  SHALL  PUBLICLY  POST  ON THEIR WEBSITE, IN A
 CONSPICUOUS PLACE, ITS INSTITUTIONAL COST REPORTS WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  OF
 SUBMITTING  SUCH  INSTITUTIONAL  COST REPORT TO THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE
 AND MEDICAID SERVICES. REPORTS SHALL BE PUBLICLY POSTED IN THE FORM  AND
 MANNER  SUCH HOSPITAL SUBMITS THEM TO THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDI-
 CAID SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH REPORTS ARE COMPLETE OR INCOM-
 PLETE, AUDITED OR UNAUDITED.
   (D) FAILURE TO PUBLICLY POST SUCH INSTITUTIONAL COST  REPORTS  IN  THE
 TIME PRESCRIBED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THIS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 SUBDIVISION.  VIOLATIONS  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL SUBJECT A GENERAL
 HOSPITAL TO THE PENALTIES OF SECTION TWELVE OF THIS CHAPTER FOR EACH DAY
 SUCH COST REPORTS ARE NOT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT, AND  THE  FAILURE
 OF  A  GENERAL  HOSPITAL TO FILE SUCH INSTITUTIONAL COST REPORT FOR MORE
 THAN ONE DAY SHALL BE DEEMED  A  CONTINUING  AND  REPEAT  VIOLATION  AND
 SUBJECT SUCH GENERAL HOSPITAL TO THE ENHANCED PENALTIES OF PARAGRAPH (B)
 OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWELVE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.