S 5693: 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 ________________________________________________________________________ 5693 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 and rules 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. (a) The commissioner shall report monthly 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 (b) Effective April first, two thousand twenty-six, no hospital shall 7 access any funds pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred seven-k of 8 this article if they are not in material compliance with federal hospi- 9 tal price transparency law, rules and regulations. The commissioner may 10 allow continued access to the fund if such commissioner deems the facil- 11 ity essential and is making progress towards compliance with federal 12 hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations. Such determi- 13 nation shall be made on a yearly basis. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 18 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05296-02-5