2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 28 - (2800 - 2823) HOSPITALS
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.
    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 section ninety-two-dd 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.