N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 7.49
Reporting obligations
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Current — June 29, 2026
As of January 1, 2023
§ 7.49 Monthly status reports.\n The commissioner shall provide monthly status reports of the community\ninvestments and the impact on inpatient census to the chair of the\nsenate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means\ncommittee and shall post such reports on the office's publicly\naccessible website. Such reports shall include, but not be limited to:\n (a) state operated psychiatric facility census;\n (b) occurrence of census exceeding budgeted capacity and reason;\n (c) occurrence of out of catchment area placements that are due to\ninsufficient capacity in the catchment area of the hospital;\n (d) admissions and discharges;\n (e) rate of Medicaid psychiatric inpatient readmissions to any\nhospital within thirty days of discharge;\n (f) Medicaid emergency room psychiatric visits;\n (g) descriptions of new community service investments;\n (h) average length of stay and number of long-term stay patients; and\n (i) an explanation of any material census reductions, when known to\nthe facility.\n
* § 7.49 Reporting obligations.\n The office shall post annually on or before January first on its\nwebsite:\n (a) the number of defendants committed to the custody of the\ncommissioner by a final order of observation issued pursuant to section\n730.40 of the criminal procedure law;\n (b) the originating counties for such orders;\n (c) the institutions to which the office designated such defendants\nfor observation;\n (d) for defendants observed at a hospital operated by the office, the\nrate of inpatient admission, the average length of stay, the number of\ndefendants who were referred to additional services, the number of\ndefendants who were not referred to additional services, and whether\ndischarge planning was conducted; and\n (e) for defendants observed at a hospital not operated by the office,\nthe number of defendants admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit and\nthe number of defendants evaluated and discharged without inpatient\nadmission.\n * NB Effective January 1, 2027\n
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