New York A 2869: Relates to the Westchester Medical Center's assignation to a certain peer group

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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2869
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to general hospital
inpatient reimbursement
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2807-c of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subdivision or any
4 other inconsistent law, rule or regulation, and effective January first,
5 two thousand twenty, the general hospital known as the Westchester
6 Medical Center operated by the Westchester county health care corpo-
7 ration shall be assigned to the same peer group of major public hospi-
8 tals as the general hospitals operated by the New York City Health and
9 Hospitals Corporation for all the purposes of this subdivision.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04670-01-9