Hospital Transparency

Unfortunately, large hospital systems sometimes remove categories of care from local hospitals, leaving patients in regions of the state without access to types of care. Worse still, patients often do not have the ability to determine whether the hospital, or hospitals, in their area provides the care they seek, because information about hospitals’ restrictions is too difficult to obtain. A.3862 (Rozic) / S.3486 (Hinchey) will give New York the tools to identify regions in the state where particular types of care are unavailable and to understand the impacts of such gaps on communities and individuals statewide. Moreover, it will offer prospective patients the tools they need to determine whether the hospital, or hospitals, in their area provides the care they seek prior to admission. The NYCLU strongly supports the bill and urges its expedient passage.