Bill Text: NJ S2592 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires nursing home facility operated by DMVA for veterans to provide State-funded transportation to health care services outside of facility.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-03-06 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [S2592 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2592-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Senator PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.
District 18 (Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires nursing home facility operated by DMVA for veterans to provide State-funded transportation to health care services outside of facility.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning transportation for veterans in nursing homes operated by the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and amending P.L.1989, c.162.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 6 of P.L.1989, c.162 (C.38A:3-6.8) is amended to read as follows:
6. a. A person admitted to a veterans' facility shall be entitled to all of its benefits and be furnished with clothing, subsistence, medical and surgical attendance, necessary to promote his health and welfare in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Adjutant General.
b. The benefits provided shall include transportation to and from ancillary health care services when a person admitted to a facility elects to use those services. The transportation shall be funded in full by the State through appropriations for the operation of each facility. A person admitted to a facility shall not, at any time, be charged or be required to incur an expense for such transportation, regardless of whether the person may receive reimbursement for such transportation costs from other sources.
As used in this subsection,
"ancillary health care services" means services such as physician, laboratory, hospitalization, dental, surgical, chiropractic, vision care, pharmacy, and other related health care services that are not covered services; and
"covered services" means the level of services required under State and federal law to be provided by a licensed and Medicare-certified long term care and skilled nursing facility and paid by Medicare.
(cf: P.L.1989, c.162, s.6)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to provide, as part of the benefits provided to veterans, and their widowers and spouses, who are admitted to a nursing home facility operated by the department, free transportation to and from ancillary health care services when a person admitted to a facility elects to use those services. The transportation is to be funded in full by the State through appropriations for the operation of each facility. A person admitted to a facility cannot, at any time, be charged or be required to incur an expense for such transportation, regardless of whether the person may receive reimbursement for such transportation costs from other sources.
As used in this bill, "ancillary health care services" means services such as physician, laboratory, hospitalization, dental, surgical, chiropractic, vision care, pharmacy, and other related health care services that are not covered services; and "covered services" means the level of services required under State and federal law to be provided by a licensed and Medicare-certified long term care and skilled nursing facility and paid by Medicare.
