N.Y. Public Health Law 2807-D-1 – Hospital quality contributions
§ 2807-d-1. Hospital quality contributions. 1. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law and subject to the receipt of all necessary federal approvals or waivers, for periods on and after July first, two thousand eleven, a quality contribution shall be imposed on the inpatient revenue of each general hospital that is received for the provision of inpatient obstetrical patient care services in an amount equal to one and six-tenths percent of such revenue, as defined in accordance with paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section twenty-eight hundred seven-d of this article, provided, however, that in the event the commissioner, in consultation with the director of the budget, determines that such quality contribution shall raise less than or more than the total quality collection amount set forth in subdivision two of this section, the commissioner, in consultation with the director of the budget, may promulgate regulations, and may promulgate emergency regulations, increasing or decreasing such quality contributions by amounts sufficient to ensure the collection of such annual quality contribution amount.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 2807-D-1
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- General hospital: means a hospital engaged in providing medical or medical and surgical services primarily to in-patients by or under the supervision of a physician on a twenty-four hour basis with provisions for admission or treatment of persons in need of emergency care and with an organized medical staff and nursing service, including facilities providing services relating to particular diseases, injuries, conditions or deformities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2801
- Hospital: means a facility or institution engaged principally in providing services by or under the supervision of a physician or, in the case of a dental clinic or dental dispensary, of a dentist, or, in the case of a midwifery birth center, of a midwife, for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, including, but not limited to, a general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, a rural emergency hospital under 42 USC 1395x(kkk), or successor provisions, dental clinic, dental dispensary, rehabilitation center other than a facility used solely for vocational rehabilitation, nursing home, tuberculosis hospital, chronic disease hospital, maternity hospital, midwifery birth center, lying-in-asylum, out-patient department, out-patient lodge, dispensary and a laboratory or central service facility serving one or more such institutions, but the term hospital shall not include an institution, sanitarium or other facility engaged principally in providing services for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of mental disability and which is subject to the powers of visitation, examination, inspection and investigation of the department of mental hygiene except for those distinct parts of such a facility which provide hospital service. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2801
2. The annual quality contribution amount referenced in subdivision one of this section shall be thirty million dollars for the state fiscal year beginning April first, two thousand eleven, and for each subsequent state fiscal year thereafter it shall be the amount of the preceding year as increased by the ten year rolling average of the medical component of the consumer price index as published by the United States department of labor, bureau of labor statistics, for the preceding ten years.
3. The quality contributions described in this section shall be administered in accordance with and subject to the provisions of subdivisions four, five, six, seven, eight and twelve of section twenty-eight hundred seven-d of this article, provided, however, that such quality contributions shall be deposited in the HCRA resources fund as established pursuant to § 92 of the state finance law; and provided further, however, that such contributions shall not be an allowable cost in the determination of reimbursement rates of payment computed pursuant to this article.