New York S 8465: Establishes the "health care information management act"

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S08465 Summary:

BILL NOS08465 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01141

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SPONSORSALAZAR

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 8-A §§820 - 823, Pub Health L

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Establishes the "health care information management act"; requires an annual report by the commissioner to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.

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BILL NOS08465 

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07/21/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8465

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 July 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the
 health care information management act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article
 2 8-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 8-A
 4 HEALTH CARE
 5 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ACT
 6 Section 820. Short title.
 7 821. Compilation of data.
 8 822. Presentation of data.
 9 823. Annual report.
 10 § 820. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
 11 "health care information management act".
 12 § 821. Compilation of data. The commissioner shall establish rules and
 13 regulations requiring every public and private hospital, as defined in
 14 subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, in
 15 conjunction with emergency and other medical services, to compile the
 16 following and submit such data in a form useable for such purposes and
 17 tallied by census tract, annually to the department:
 18 1. With regard to emergency medical services: (a) The length of time
 19 between each individual's call to 911 and such individual's arrival at
 20 the emergency room;
 21 (b) The length of time between, but not limited to arrival and admis-
 22 sion at such hospital regardless of method of arrival, which may include
 23 but not be limited to walk-ins and arrival via ambulance;
 24 (c) The number of patients treated and released without admission to
 25 such hospital;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02825-01-5

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 1 (d) The total amount of time between an individual's admission to the
 2 emergency room and obtaining a bed on the hospital floor;
 3 2. With regard to other medical services: (a) The total wait time for
 4 all patients to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such
 5 hospital;
 6 (b) The total wait time for all pregnant people, pre and post-partum,
 7 to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such hospital;
 8 (c) The percentage of people admitted, in labor with no pre-partum
 9 care;
 10 (d) The number of births;
 11 (e) The number of fatalities due to asthma;
 12 (f) The number of fatalities as a result of pulmonary diseases;
 13 (g) The number of patients with any form of cardiac disease; and
 14 (h) Any additional data the commissioner deems pertinent to such
 15 compilation of data.
 16 § 822. Presentation of data. Data from all individual patients
 17 compiled under section eight hundred twenty-one of this article shall be
 18 placed into one of the following categories based on each individual's
 19 current insurance status:
 20 1. Uninsured;
 21 2. Medicare recipient:
 22 (a) Part A;
 23 (b) Part B;
 24 (c) Part C; or
 25 (d) Part D;
 26 3. Medicaid recipient;
 27 4. Insured with an employer-driven insurance plan; or
 28 5. Insured with a metal level of:
 29 (a) Bronze;
 30 (b) Silver;
 31 (c) Gold; or
 32 (d) Platinum.
 33 § 823. Annual report. On or before the first of January, beginning in
 34 two thousand twenty-seven and every year thereafter, the commissioner
 35 shall submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and
 36 the speaker of the assembly, a report of the compiled data outlined in
 37 section eight hundred twenty-one of this article.
 38 § 2. This act shall take effect on th