Bill Text: NJ A5173 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services provided through Statewide Respite Care Program and Jersey Assistance for Community Caregiving Program to be no less than Medicaid fee-for-service rate for personal care services; makes appropriation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-30 - Approved P.L.2023, c.86. [A5173 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A5173-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5173

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 9, 2023

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex)

Assemblyman  P. CHRISTOPHER TULLY

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Stanley, Danielsen and Assemblywoman Murphy

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services provided through Statewide Respite Care Program and Jersey Assistance for Community Caregiving Program to be no less than Medicaid fee-for-service rate for personal care services; makes appropriation.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Aging and Senior Services Committee on March 20, 2023, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning reimbursement levels for certain community based senior program services, amending P.L.1987, c.119 and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes, and making an appropriation.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 6 of P.L.1987, c.119 (C.30:4F-12) is amended to read as follows:

     6.    The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.  The rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

     a.     Standards for eligibility for respite care services;

     b.    Target populations and situations to be given priority in receiving services;

     c.     Qualifications and requirements of sponsors and providers;

     d.    Provider reimbursement and payment levels for respite care services, provided that:

     (1)   the hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services, personal care services, and homemaker services, in which the services are provided on a weekday, shall be no less than the hourly State Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rate for personal care services, and that the hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services, personal care services, and homemaker services, in which the services are provided on a weekend ¹[and] or¹ on a State or federal holiday, shall be no less than the amount of the hourly State Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rate for personal care services plus $1; and

     (2)   each eligible person shall receive up to ¹[$6,088] $6,559.63, or a higher amount which the Commissioner of Human Services may approve,¹ of respite services in a calendar year;

     e.     Service and cost limitations for eligible persons;

     f.     A sliding scale fee schedule for co-payments; and

     g.    Procedures for reporting on implementation of the program.

(cf: P.L.1987, c.119, s.6)

 

     2.    (New section)  There shall be appropriated each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services an amount sufficient to carry out the provisions of section 1 of P.L.    , c.    (pending before the Legislature as this bill).

     3.    (New section)  a.  The hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services, personal care services, and homemaker services provided under the Jersey Assistance for Community Caregiving (JACC) Program, as administered by the Division of Aging Services in the Department of Human Services, in which the services are provided on a weekday, shall be no less than the hourly State Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rate for personal care services, and the hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services, personal care services, and homemaker services provided under the JACC Program, in which the services are provided on a weekend ¹[and] or¹ on a State or federal holiday, shall be no less than the amount of the hourly State Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rate for personal care services plus $1.

     b.    Each applicant determined to be eligible for the JACC Program, pursuant to criteria implemented by the Division of Aging Services, shall receive, in addition to the cost of any monthly case management fee, up to ¹[$10,733] $11,158.56, or a higher amount which the Commissioner of Human Services may approve,¹ of JACC Program services in a calendar year.

     c.     There shall be appropriated each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services an amount sufficient to carry out the provisions of this section.

     d.    The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to effectuate the purposes of this section.

 

     4.    This act shall take effect immediately.