A 1900: Requires quarterly reporting on hospital compliance with federal hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations; establishes a civil penalty for non-compliance.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1900 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to hospital compli- ance with federal hospital price transparency law, rules and regu- lations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2805 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. The commissioner shall report quarterly on hospital compliance 4 with federal hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations. 5 Such report shall be conspicuously posted on the department's website. 6 § 2. Hospitals not in compliance with federal price transparency law, 7 rules and regulations shall be subject to penalties under section 12 of 8 the public health law. 9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05296-01-5