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                                  10591

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 7, 2016
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried,
  Richardson,  Englebright,  Magnarelli,  Bichotte)  --  read  once  and
  referred 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
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

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

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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.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.