Bill Text: NY A00238 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Extends the number of days within a twelve month period a facility may receive reimbursement for a reserved bed.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A00238 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00238-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           238
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH,
          GUNTHER, McDONOUGH -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to extending the
          number of days within a twelve month period  a  facility  may  receive
          reimbursement for a reserved bed
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  25  of
     2  section 2808 of the public health law, as amended by section 2 of part E
     3  of chapter 57 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ii) payment to a facility for reserved bed days provided on behalf of
     5  such person for therapeutic leaves of absence may not exceed ten days in
     6  any  twelve  month period. Provided, however, should such person's indi-
     7  vidual care plan provide for therapeutic leave, payment  to  a  facility
     8  for  reserve  bed  days on behalf of such person for non-hospitalization
     9  leaves may not exceed twenty-five days in any twelve month period.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01911-01-9
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