What's happening
This bill expands eligibility for state funding to freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers that receive comprehensive family planning reproductive health grants.
Why it matters
Expanding eligibility to freestanding centers. means more clinics—specifically those focused on family planning and reproductive health—can now receive state funds, potentially increasing the number of sites able to serve low-income and uninsured patients.
Targeted support for reproductive health services. could help stabilize funding for centers that rely on state grants to offer family planning, STI testing, and related preventive care, especially in areas where such services may be limited or under threat.
Potential for greater access to care. for indigent and uninsured populations, as more clinics may be able to cover uncompensated care costs, lowering the financial barriers for patients seeking primary or reproductive health services.
Broader network of eligible providers. may foster competition and innovation among clinics, potentially improving the quality and range of services available in underserved communities.
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Who cares
Freestanding family planning clinics
Centers receiving comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grants from the Department of Health would become eligible for indigent-care funding or rate adjustments if they meet the bill’s uncompensated-care requirements.
Uninsured patients at family planning clinics
The bill would extend funding eligibility to qualifying clinics where at least five percent of base-year visits were to uninsured individuals.
New York State Department of Health
The department would apply the expanded eligibility criteria while retaining requirements for clinics to demonstrate losses from disproportionate uncompensated care.
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Aid for Family Planning Clinics
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Aid for Family Planning Clinics
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1080
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
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
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 2807-p of the public health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
(a) "Eligible diagnostic and treatment centers", for purposes of this section, shall mean voluntary non-profit and publicly sponsored diagnostic and treatment centers providing a comprehensive range of primary health care services, or is a freestanding diagnostic and treatment center receiving a comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grant from the department, which can demonstrate losses from disproportionate share of uncompensated care during a base period two years prior to the grant period; provided that for periods on and after January first, two thousand four an eligible diagnostic and treatment center shall not include any voluntary non-profit diagnostic and treatment center controlling, controlled by or under common control with a health maintenance organization, as defined by subdivision one of section forty-four hundred one of this chapter; provided further that for purposes of this section, a health maintenance organization shall not include a prepaid health services plan licensed pursuant to section forty-four hundred three-a of this chapter. For periods on and after July first, two thousand three, the base period and the grant period shall be the calendar year.
§ 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 2807-p of the public health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(c) To be eligible for an allocation of funds or a rate adjustment pursuant to this section, a diagnostic and treatment center must provide a comprehensive range of primary health care services, or is a freestanding diagnostic and treatment center receiving a comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grant from the department, and must demonstrate that a minimum of five percent of total clinic visits reported during the applicable base year period were to uninsured individuals. The commissioner may retrospectively reduce the allocations of funds or the rate adjustments to a diagnostic and treatment center if it is determined that provider management actions or decisions have caused a significant reduction for the grant period in the delivery of comprehensive primary health care services to uncompensated care residents of the community.
§ 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2020.
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