Bill Text: NY A00414 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting ownership or control of managed long term care plans by health maintenance organizations or insurers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-23 - amended on third reading 414c [A00414 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A00414-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 414--C Cal. No. 635 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, STECK, SCHIMEL, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI, BRENNAN, COOK, FARRELL, GUNTHER, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to managed long term care plans not being controlled or owned by for-profit health mainte- nance organizations or insurers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 4403-f of the 2 public health law, as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1997, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) "Eligible applicant" means an entity controlled or wholly owned by 5 one or more of the following: a hospital as defined in subdivision one 6 of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter; a home care agency 7 licensed or certified pursuant to article thirty-six of this chapter; 8 [an] a not-for-profit entity that has received a certificate of authori- 9 ty pursuant to sections forty-four hundred three, forty-four hundred 10 three-a or an integrated delivery system that has received a certificate 11 of authority pursuant to section forty-four hundred eight-a of this 12 article (as added by chapter six hundred thirty-nine of the laws of 13 nineteen hundred ninety-six), or a not-for-profit health maintenance EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02424-08-6A. 414--C 2 1 organization authorized under article forty-three of the insurance law; 2 or a not-for-profit organization which has a history of providing or 3 coordinating health care services and long term care services to the 4 elderly and disabled. However, an entity owned or controlled by an 5 entity that has received a certificate of authority pursuant to section 6 forty-four hundred three or forty-four hundred three-a of this article 7 and has received a certificate of authority under this section prior to 8 the effective date of the chapter of law which enacted this sentence 9 shall be deemed to be an eligible applicant. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 11 the amendments to section 4403-f of the public health law made by 12 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and 13 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
