S 8465: Establishes the "health care information management act"; requires an annual report by the commissioner to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8465 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE July 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the health care information management act The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 2 8-A to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 8-A 4 HEALTH CARE 5 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ACT 6 Section 820. Short title. 7 821. Compilation of data. 8 822. Presentation of data. 9 823. Annual report. 10 § 820. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the 11 "health care information management act". 12 § 821. Compilation of data. The commissioner shall establish rules and 13 regulations requiring every public and private hospital, as defined in 14 subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, in 15 conjunction with emergency and other medical services, to compile the 16 following and submit such data in a form useable for such purposes and 17 tallied by census tract, annually to the department: 18 1. With regard to emergency medical services: (a) The length of time 19 between each individual's call to 911 and such individual's arrival at 20 the emergency room; 21 (b) The length of time between, but not limited to arrival and admis- 22 sion at such hospital regardless of method of arrival, which may include 23 but not be limited to walk-ins and arrival via ambulance; 24 (c) The number of patients treated and released without admission to 25 such hospital; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02825-01-5 
 S. 8465 2 1 (d) The total amount of time between an individual's admission to the 2 emergency room and obtaining a bed on the hospital floor; 3 2. With regard to other medical services: (a) The total wait time for 4 all patients to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such 5 hospital; 6 (b) The total wait time for all pregnant people, pre and post-partum, 7 to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such hospital; 8 (c) The percentage of people admitted, in labor with no pre-partum 9 care; 10 (d) The number of births; 11 (e) The number of fatalities due to asthma; 12 (f) The number of fatalities as a result of pulmonary diseases; 13 (g) The number of patients with any form of cardiac disease; and 14 (h) Any additional data the commissioner deems pertinent to such 15 compilation of data. 16 § 822. Presentation of data. Data from all individual patients 17 compiled under section eight hundred twenty-one of this article shall be 18 placed into one of the following categories based on each individual's 19 current insurance status: 20 1. Uninsured; 21 2. Medicare recipient: 22 (a) Part A; 23 (b) Part B; 24 (c) Part C; or 25 (d) Part D; 26 3. Medicaid recipient; 27 4. Insured with an employer-driven insurance plan; or 28 5. Insured with a metal level of: 29 (a) Bronze; 30 (b) Silver; 31 (c) Gold; or 32 (d) Platinum. 33 § 823. Annual report. On or before the first of January, beginning in 34 two thousand twenty-seven and every year thereafter, the commissioner 35 shall submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and 36 the speaker of the assembly, a report of the compiled data outlined in 37 section eight hundred twenty-one of this article. 38 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 39 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 40 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 41 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or 42 before such effective date.