What's happening
This bill expands eligibility for state funding to include freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers receiving reproductive health services grants.
Why it matters
Expands access to state funding. for freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers that specifically provide family planning and reproductive health services, not just those offering a full range of primary care.
Addresses funding gaps for reproductive health providers. by allowing centers that receive state reproductive health grants (such as Title X equivalents) to qualify for financial support, potentially stabilizing or expanding services for underserved populations.
Maintains a focus on care for uninsured patients. by requiring that at least 5% of clinic visits are to uninsured individuals, ensuring public funds continue to support centers serving vulnerable communities.
Could increase service capacity and sustainability. of specialized reproductive health clinics, which may improve access to contraception, STI testing, and other reproductive health services, especially for low-income or uninsured patients.
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Aid for Family Planning Clinics
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to health
- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.31
- 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 Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Deborah Glick
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STATE OF NEW YORK
470
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05008-01-9
S. 470 2
§ 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:
(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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Sponsor's memo
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 plan- ning 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
2015-2016: S8214/No same-as 2017-2018: S159/A3693 Glick
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Local fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on April 1, 2020.
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