A 4748: Requires safety net hospitals to submit an annual plan for increasing or generating revenue.
What A 4748 does, verified January 8, 2026
The proposed law requires safety net hospitals to submit an annual plan to increase revenue. This plan can include policies and actions such as attracting patients with private insurance, retaining patients who switch from Medicaid, offering profitable procedures, enrolling eligible patients in Medicaid, collecting payments from patients who can afford to pay, and developing underutilized land. The law defines a "safety net hospital" as a public hospital, critical access hospital, or sole community hospital, or one that serves a high percentage of Medicaid, uninsured, and dual-eligible individuals. The law will take effect 90 days after it becomes a law.
Bill journey
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Last action: referred to health (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 4748
- What is the current status of A 4748?
- As of January 8, 2026, A 4748 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "referred to health".
- Did A 4748 pass?
- Not yet. A 4748 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 4748, and where is it now?
- A 4748 was authored by Asm. Jenifer Rajkumar. Its committee of record is Assembly Health. It is filed under PBH, alongside 184 other New York PBH bills this session.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to health |
| Feb. 06, 2025 | referred to health |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 6, 2025 · 348 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4748 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring safety net hospitals to submit an annual plan for increasing revenue The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2807 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 22 to read as follows: 3 22. (a) Any hospital designated by the department as a safety net 4 hospital shall submit an annual plan to the department outlining 5 proposed policies and actions to generate or increase revenue, and shall 6 submit follow up reports annually to document progress towards estab- 7 lished goals. Such policies and actions may include, but are not limited 8 to, programs to attract more patients with private insurance, methods of 9 retaining patients who go from Medicaid to private insurance, offering 10 profitable procedures, enrolling eligible patients in Medicaid, collect- 11 ing payments from patients who can afford to pay, and developing underu- 12 tilized land in the hospital's possession. 13 (b) For purposes of this subdivision, a "safety net hospital" shall 14 mean: 15 (i) a public hospital, critical access hospital or sole community 16 hospital; or 17 (ii) (A) at least thirty-five percent of all patient volume in their 18 outpatient lines of business are Medicaid, uninsured and dual eligible 19 individuals, or (B) at least thirty percent of inpatient treatment are 20 Medicaid, uninsured and dual eligible individuals; or 21 (iii) serving at least thirty percent of all Medicaid, uninsured and 22 dual eligible members in a county or multi-county community. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 24 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08578-01-5
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