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NY A07230
Bill
Status
11/23/2022
Primary Sponsor
Richard Gottfried
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AI Summary
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Establishes a Primary Care Reform Commission within the Department of Health to review primary care spending by all payers and publish annual reports with findings and recommendations.
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Commission consists of 17 members: the health and financial services commissioners, 7 gubernatorial appointees, and 8 members appointed by the governor on recommendation of legislative leaders, with expertise required in primary care financing, providers, health plans, hospitals, and advocacy.
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Requires all Medicaid managed care providers, insurance entities, and third-party payors to submit primary care spending data for the five years prior to the bill's effective date and annually thereafter, with failure to comply considered a violation of public health law.
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First annual report due by March 31 of the year following enactment must include analysis of current primary care spending by region, barriers to increasing primary care, and recommendations for legislative and executive action to improve care quality and equity.
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Recommends increasing primary care spending to the greater of 12 percent or a one percent annual increase of overall health care spending within five years of the bill's effective date.
Legislative Description
Establishes the primary care reform commission to review, examine, and make findings on the level of primary care spending by all payers in the context of all health care spending in the state and publish an annual report on the findings, and also make recommendations to increase and strengthen spending on primary care in the state and improve primary care infrastructure, taking care to avoid increasing costs to patients or the total cost of health care.
Last Action
tabled
11/23/2022