New York S 7479: Relates to medical debt

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S07479 Summary:

BILL NOS07479 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§5201 & 7501, CPLR; amd §601, Gen Bus L; add §2832, Pub Health L

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Prohibits money judgments arising from non-payment of facility items and services by a patient or patient guarantor that is brought by a facility; prohibits the enforcement of arbitration agreements or clauses with respect to non-payment of facility items and services by a patient or patient guarantor; relates to the collection of medical debt; requires transparency in hospital pricing.

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BILL NOS07479 

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04/17/2025REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7479

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 17, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, the general business
 law and the public health law, in relation to medical debt

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 5201 of the civil practice law
 2 and rules is amended to read as follows:
 3 (a) Debt against which a money judgment may be enforced. A money judg-
 4 ment may be enforced against any debt, which is past due or which is yet
 5 to become due, certainly or upon demand of the judgment debtor, whether
 6 it was incurred within or without the state, to or from a resident or
 7 non-resident, unless it is exempt from application to the satisfaction
 8 of the judgment. A debt may consist of a cause of action which could be
 9 assigned or transferred accruing within or without the state. No money
 10 judgment shall be sought, entered, or enforced in an action arising from
 11 non-payment of facility items and services by a patient or patient guar-
 12 antor that is brought by a facility, as defined under section twenty-
 13 eight hundred thirty-two of the public health law, that is in material
 14 noncompliance with section twenty-eight hundred thirty-two of the public
 15 health law on the date that the relevant facility items or services are
 16 purchased from a provider to a patient by the facility in material
 17 noncompliance.
 18 § 2. Section 7501 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by
 19 chapter 532 of the laws of 1963, is amended to read as follows:
 20 § 7501. Effect of arbitration agreement. A written agreement to submit
 21 any controversy thereafter arising or any existing controversy to arbi-
 22 tration is enforceable without regard to the justiciable character of
 23 the controversy and confers jurisdiction on the courts of the state to
 24 enforce it and to enter judgment on an award. In determining any matter
 25 arising under this article, the court shall not consider whether the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08384-01-5

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 1 claim with respect to which arbitration is sought is tenable, or other-
 2 wise pass upon the merits of the dispute. No facility, as defined under
 3 section twenty-eight hundred thirty-two of the public health law, shall
 4 enforce an arbitration agreement or clause in any facility document,
 5 including contracts, agreements, statements, or bills, in an action
 6 arising from patient or patient guarantor non-payment of facility items
 7 or services, if that facility is in material noncompliance with section
 8 twenty-eight hundred thirty-two of the public health law on the date
 9 that the relevant facility items or services are purchased from a
 10 provider to a patient by the facility in material noncompliance.
 11 § 3. Section 601 of the general business law is amended by adding two
 12 new subdivisions 13 and 14 to read as follows:
 13 13. Attempt to collect a medical debt, or debt arising from nonpayment
 14 of facility items and services, from a patient or patient guar