New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 2999-r. Other laws

1. (a) It is the policy of the state to permit and encourage cooperative, collaborative and integrative arrangements among third-party health care payers and health care providers who might otherwise be competitors under the active supervision of the commissioner.  To the extent that it is necessary to accomplish the purposes of this article, competition may be supplanted and the state may provide state action immunity under state and federal antitrust laws to payors and health care providers.

(b) The commissioner shall engage in state supervision to promote state action immunity under state and federal antitrust laws and may inspect, require, or request additional documentation and take other actions under this article to verify and make sure that this article is implemented in accordance with its intent and purpose.

(a) article twenty-two of the general business law relating to arrangements and agreements in restraint of trade;

(b) article one hundred thirty-one-A of the education law relating to fee-splitting arrangements;  and

(c) title two-D of article two of this chapter relating to health care practitioner referrals.

(a) consumer assistance to patients served by an ACO as to matters relating to ACOs;

(b) technical and other assistance to health care providers participating in an ACO as to matters relating to the ACO;

(c) assistance to ACOs to promote their formation and improve their operation, including assistance under section twenty-eight hundred eighteen of this chapter;  and

(d) information sharing and other assistance among ACOs to improve the operation of ACOs.