New York A 7361: Relates to an ambulance fee schedule

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A07361 Summary:

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Amd §122-b, Gen Muni L

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Relates to an ambulance fee schedule for ambulance service to licensed emergency departments.

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BILL NOA07361 

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03/25/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7361

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to fee schedules
 for ambulance service

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

 1 Section 1. Section 122-b of the general municipal law is amended by
 2 adding three new subdivisions 6, 7 and 8 to read as follows:
 3 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all
 4 department of health licensed emergency departments which receive
 5 patients via ambulance service shall be subject to the following fee
 6 schedule payable to the ambulance service provider:
 7 (a) No fee where upon ambulance arrival on the emergency department's
 8 property, ambulance patients who are admitted and the ambulance service
 9 released to service other emergency calls in under thirty minutes.
 10 (b) Fee where every thirty minutes following the initial thirty minute
 11 period whereby a patient is waiting to be admitted and the ambulance
 12 service is providing services to the patient and/or is rendered unable
 13 to respond to other emergency service calls, there shall be a fee
 14 imposed utilizing upon the department's emergency services mobilization
 15 rates prorated to thirty-minute increments.
 16 7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all
 17 department of health licensed emergency departments which receive
 18 patients via ambulance service shall be subject to the following fee
 19 schedule payable to the department of health. All ambulance services
 20 awaiting admittance of a patient in their care and rendered unable to
 21 respond to other emergency service calls, the following fee schedule
 22 shall apply:
 23 (a) After one hour elapses, the fee imposed shall be one thousand
 24 dollars. For each subsequent hour after the first hour, the fee imposed
 25 will increase by five hundred dollars per hour.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11082-01-5

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 1 (b) The department of health shall review the fee schedule every four
 2 years and determine increases based upon the consumer price index.
 3 8. (a) Ambulance services who implement the fee schedule authorized by
 4 subdivision six of this section shall bill the emergency department.
 5 (b) Emergency departments shall render payment to the ambulance
 6 provider within sixty days. Late payments shall be subject to a three
 7 percent interest fee per month for each subsequent thirty day period.
 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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