What's happening
This bill requires that at least 25% of New York's Health Care Transformation Fund annually support community-based health care providers.
Why it matters
Redirects a significant portion (at least 25%) of state health transformation funds to community-based providers. , which could mean more resources for local clinics, mental health centers, substance use programs, and other non-hospital care settings that often serve vulnerable populations.
Broadens the definition of eligible community-based providers. , explicitly including mental health, substance use disorder, developmental disability, primary care, home care, hospice, and family/child service organizations, ensuring a diverse range of non-hospital providers can access these funds.
Aims to address health equity and social determinants of health. by prioritizing funding for providers that are typically more embedded in and responsive to community needs—potentially improving access to care for underserved groups and supporting services beyond traditional medical treatment.
May shift funding priorities within the state’s health system. , potentially impacting how hospitals, large health systems, and community organizations plan for capital projects, service expansions, or new programs, as a guaranteed share of funds is reserved for community-based care.
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Who cares
Community health centers and primary care providers
The bill would reserve at least 25% of annual health care transformation fund deposits exclusively for eligible community-based providers, including diagnostic and treatment centers and primary care providers.
Mental health, substance use and developmental disability service providers
The bill would include specified licensed providers and community-based programs funded by state agencies or local government units in the reserved funding pool.
Home care, hospice and family and child service providers
Providers meeting the bill’s licensing or certification requirements would be included among those eligible for the community-based funding allocation.
State Division of the Budget
The bill would constrain the budget director’s authority to direct fund transfers by requiring a minimum annual allocation exclusively for community-based providers.
Headline styles
Boost Funds for Community Clinics
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
History
- Referred to ways and means
- Print number 7977b
- Amend and recommit to ways and means
- Print number 7977a
- Amend and recommit to ways and means
- Reported referred to ways and means
- 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.
Fund Community Health Providers
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7977--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, CRUZ, BLAKE, LENTOL, HUNTER, ORTIZ, JAFFEE, SIMON, SAYEGH, DE LA ROSA, D'URSO, GLICK, LUPARDO, REYES, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the health care transformation fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 92-hh of the state finance law, as added by section 1 of subpart A of part FFF of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, moneys of the health care transformation fund shall be available for transfer to any other fund of the state as authorized and directed by the director of the budget to support health care delivery, including for capital investment, debt retirement or restructuring, housing and other social determinants of health, or transitional operating support to health care providers. On and after the date this sentence becomes a law, at least twenty-five percent of the moneys deposited into such fund on an annual basis shall be allocated exclusively for community-based health care providers which shall be defined as a diagnostic and treatment center licensed or granted an operating certificate under article twenty-eight of the public health law, a mental health outpatient provider licensed or granted an operating certificate under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, a substance use disorder treatment provider licensed or granted an operating certificate under article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law, a program licensed under article forty-one of the mental hygiene law, a community-based program funded under the office of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11602-06-9
A. 7977--B 2
mental health, the office for people with developmental disabilities, the office of addiction services and supports or through a local government unit as defined under article forty-one of the mental hygiene law, a home care provider certified or licensed pursuant to article thirtysix of the public health law, a primary care provider, a clinic licensed or granted an operating certificate under article sixteen of the mental hygiene law, a provider of health home services as authorized under section 2703 of the federal protection and affordable care act, a hospice provider licensed or granted an operating certificate under article forty of the public health law, or a family and child service provider licensed under article twenty-nine-I of the public health law, for the exclusive purpose of supporting the programs and services defined in this subdivision.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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