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A07763 Summary:

BILL NOA07763
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05661-B
 
SPONSORGottfried (MS)
 
COSPNSRJones, Colton, Lifton, Steck, Mosley, Sepulveda, Carroll, Jenne, Pellegrino, Woerner, Harris
 
MLTSPNSRBarclay, Englebright, Magee, Weinstein
 
Amd §2807-c, Pub Health L
 
Establishes the enhanced safety net hospital program to provide for the payment, solely by the state, of enhanced medical assistance payments to hospitals which serve the uninsured or recipients of medical assistance, are public sector hospitals, or are federally designated as critical access or sole community hospitals.
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A07763 Actions:

BILL NOA07763
 
05/15/2017referred to health
05/23/2017reported referred to ways and means
06/19/2017reported referred to rules
06/19/2017reported
06/19/2017rules report cal.506
06/19/2017ordered to third reading rules cal.506
06/20/2017substituted by s5661b
 S05661 AMEND=B LITTLE
 04/24/2017REFERRED TO HEALTH
 05/02/2017REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
 05/10/2017AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
 05/10/2017PRINT NUMBER 5661A
 05/15/2017AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
 05/15/2017PRINT NUMBER 5661B
 05/23/20171ST REPORT CAL.1283
 05/24/20172ND REPORT CAL.
 06/05/2017ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
 06/13/2017PASSED SENATE
 06/13/2017DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
 06/13/2017referred to ways and means
 06/20/2017substituted for a7763
 06/20/2017ordered to third reading rules cal.506
 06/20/2017passed assembly
 06/20/2017returned to senate
 12/06/2017DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
 12/18/2017VETOED MEMO.229
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A07763 Committee Votes:

HEALTH Chair:Gottfried DATE:05/23/2017AYE/NAY:23/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means
GottfriedAyeRaiaAye
SchimmingerAyeMcDonoughAye
GalefAyeRaAye
DinowitzAyeWalterAye
CahillAyeGarbarinoAye
PaulinAyeByrneAye
CymbrowitzAyeNorrisAye
GuntherAye
RosenthalAye
HevesiExcused
LavineAye
TitoneAye
MayerAye
JaffeeAye
SteckExcused
AbinantiAye
BraunsteinAye
KimAye
SolagesExcused

WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Farrell DATE:06/19/2017AYE/NAY:34/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules
FarrellAyeOaksAye
LentolAyeCrouchAye
SchimmingerAyeBarclayAye
GanttAyeFitzpatrickAye
WeinsteinAyeHawleyAye
GlickAyeMalliotakisAye
NolanAyeWalterAye
PretlowAyeMontesanoAye
PerryAyeCurranAye
ColtonAyeRaAye
CookAye
CahillAye
AubryAye
HooperAye
ThieleAye
CusickAye
OrtizAye
BenedettoAye
MoyaAye
WeprinAye
RodriguezExcused
RamosAye
BraunsteinAye
McDonaldAye
RozicAye

RULES Chair:Heastie DATE:06/19/2017AYE/NAY:30/0 Action: Favorable
HeastieAyeKolbAye
GottfriedAyeOaksAye
LentolAyeButlerAye
FarrellAyeCrouchAye
GanttExcusedFinchAye
NolanAyeBarclayAye
WeinsteinAyeRaiaAye
HooperAyeHawleyAye
OrtizAye
PretlowAye
CookAye
GlickAye
MorelleAye
AubryAye
EnglebrightAye
DinowitzAye
ColtonAye
MagnarelliAye
PerryAye
GalefAye
PaulinAye
TitusAye
Peoples-StokesAye

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A07763 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A07763 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A7763
 
SPONSOR: Gottfried (MS)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the enhanced safety net hospital program   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To define enhanced safety net hospitals and provide for adjusted Medi- caid rates in order to assure their financial viability.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Add a new subdivision 34 to Public Health Law § 2807-c to establish an enhanced safety net hospital program. The definition of "enhanced safety net hospital" is based on ratios of patients served who are either enrolled in Medicaid or uninsured, as well as public hospitals, State University hospitals, and federally designated sole community and crit- ical access hospitals. The Commissioner of Health would adjust Medicaid rates for enhanced safety net hospitals to support critically needed health care services and continued operation of such hospitals. The state share of the Medi- caid adjustment would not include a local share.   JUSTIFICATION: The state budget for fiscal year 2017-18 includes appropriations for Enhanced Safety Net Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals. These appropriations are intended to highlight and support the valuable role these institutions play in stabilizing underserved communities. It is necessary to enact a statutory program with a payment rate adjust- ment in order to assure the financial viability of safety net providers, support the vital services they provide, and acknowledge their benefit to our state.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2016: A.9476-a passed the Assembly and Senate but was vetoed by the Governor.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: To be determined by appropriation   EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2018.
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A07763 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7763
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 15, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GOTTFRIED, JONES, COLTON, LIFTON, STECK, MOSLEY
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEINSTEIN -- read once and  referred
          to the Committee on Health
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
          enhanced safety net hospital program

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  2807-c  of  the  public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 34 to read as follows:
     3    34. Enhanced safety net hospital program. (a) For the purposes of this
     4  subdivision, "enhanced safety net hospital" means a hospital which:
     5    (i) in any of the previous three calendar years, has met the following
     6  criteria:
     7    (A) not less than fifty percent of  the  patients  it  treats  receive
     8  medicaid or are medically uninsured;
     9    (B)  not  less  than  forty  percent  of  its inpatient discharges are
    10  covered by medicaid;
    11    (C) twenty-five percent or less of its discharged patients are commer-
    12  cially insured;
    13    (D) not less than three percent of the patients it  provides  services
    14  to are attributed to the care of uninsured patients; and
    15    (E)  provides care to uninsured patients in its emergency room, hospi-
    16  tal based clinics and community based clinics, including  the  provision
    17  of important community services, such as dental care and prenatal care;
    18    (ii)  is  a public hospital operated by a county, municipality, public
    19  benefit corporation or the state university of New York; or
    20    (iii) is federally designated as a critical access or  sole  community
    21  hospital.
    22    (b) The commissioner shall adjust medical assistance rates to enhanced
    23  safety  net  hospitals  for the purposes of supporting critically needed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11742-01-7

        A. 7763                             2
 
     1  health care services and to ensure the continued maintenance and  opera-
     2  tion of such hospitals.
     3    (c)  Payment  of  the  non-federal  share  of  the  medical assistance
     4  payments made pursuant to this subdivision shall be  the  responsibility
     5  of the state and shall not include a local share. Payments made pursuant
     6  to  this  subdivision may be added to rates of payment or made as aggre-
     7  gate payments to eligible general hospitals.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.
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