S 9508 New York Senate · 2021 Regular Session

Enacts the health equity, affordability, and reform act; repealer

Summary
Enacts the "health equity, affordability, and reform act"; relates to the basic health program; permits a person or eligible small group to purchase coverage from a basic health plan on behalf of an individual, spouse, and any qualified dependents through the basic health program buy-in as long as the individual, spouse, and any qualified dependents otherwise meet certain eligibility requirements (Part A); relates to cost containment and consumer protection; relates to income execution (Part B); establishes the chronic disease demonstration program to recommend cost-sharing eliminations for targeted high-value services, treatments and prescription drugs used to treat certain chronic conditions (Part C); addresses health equity through safety net hospital support; promotes health equity through commercial rate equity for safety net hospitals that predominantly serve communities that experience health disparities because of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status or other status (Part D); provides that the commissioner of health may require any health care provider or third-party payer to report additional claim or price information not already reported pursuant to this section to analyze all health care expenditures in the state from public and private sources (Part E).
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Jul 2022
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Introduced Jul 22, 2022 Last action Jul 22, 2022
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Jeremy Cooney
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