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                                  3530--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  KENNEDY,  GALLIVAN,  HARCKHAM  --  read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Health  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Health in accordance with
   Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05316-03-2
              

 S. 3530--A                          2
 
 A DISCRETE INSTITUTIONAL COST REPORT WAS FILED FOR THE PAST THREE CALEN-
 DAR  YEARS, 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.