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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to diagnostic and treatment centers providing care to the indigent which are eligible for the allocation of state funds
Purpose
Provides that freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers receiving comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grants, shall be eligible for state aid for indigent care.
Summary of provisions
This bill seeks to make Planned Parenthood's freestanding Article 28 clinics eligible for bad debt and charity care funds. It would add to the definition of "eligible diagnostic and treatment centers" found under the public health law so that the law will include freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers receiving a comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grant from the department.
Justification
Indigent care funds, also known as bad debt and charity care funds, support the State's goal of providing equal and broad access to primary care services to the indigent by offsetting what would otherwise be significant losses on the part of primary care clinics. Each year the State appropriates about $55 million for this purpose.
The first and often only place that people access any care is a Planned Parenthood freestanding Article 28 clinic. In fact, more and more women and men are making their critical, initial contact with a medical professional at these clinics.
Despite fulfilling the State's goal of providing the indigent with initial access to basic medical services, New York's Planned Parenthood clinics are ineligible for indigent care funds. Therefore, these clinics must bear an unequal and onerous burden in covering the costs of these services.
Legislative history
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Fiscal implications
To be determined
Local fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on April 1, 2015.
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