In accordance with the provisions of Article 28 of the Public Health Law (PHL), the Commissioner of Health has contracted with Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Central New York Region to act as the Department of Health's Pool Administrator.  The Office of Pool Administration oversees the Public Goods Pool established under the New York Health Care Reform Act (HCRA), the Health Facility Cash Receipts Assessment Program established pursuant to Section 2807-d of the PHL, and the Bad Debt and Charity Care Independent Accountant's Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures pursuant to Section 2807-k of the PHL.

This web site has been established to assist users with the electronic filing of the required reports under the cites indicated above.  The electronic reporting function supports browsers Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape 7.0 and above.

For more Information about these programs, please click on the appropriate link to thes left.

Email Security:

There have been unauthorized email messages claiming to originate from this web site.  Emails of this type may include attachments designed to infect the recipient's computer with a virus, worm, Trojan program, etc.  Some emails will try to solicit personal or confidential information, such as, credit card information, social security numbers or account number userid and passwords.  To assist in providing you with a safer working environment, we have a developed a list of emails we have mailed to you.  You can access this list by selecting the "Email Correspondence" button on the left side navigation bar.  If you are still not certain that you should open it, please call us at (315) 671-3800 to verify its content.