New York Senate Bill S08988 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8988--A  IN SENATE April 8, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to hospital compli- ance with federal hospital price transparency law and rules The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2805 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. (a) The commissioner shall report monthly on hospital compliance 4 with federal hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations. 5 Such report shall be conspicuously posted on the department's website. 6 (b) Effective April first, two thousand twenty-five, no hospital 7 shall access any funds pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred seven-k 8 of this article if they are not in material compliance with federal 9 hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations. The commission- 10 er may allow continued access to the fund if such commissioner deems the 11 facility essential and is making progress towards compliance with feder- 12 al hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations. Such determi- 13 nation shall be made on a yearly basis. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 18 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14044-05-4