Bill Text: NY A01926 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 1926

NY State Legislature page for A01926

Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to publish certain information relating to home care services usage on the department's website on an annual basis including the number of individuals receiving care, those that have had permanent transfers and aggregated service usage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2023-11-17 - tabled [A01926 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01926-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1926--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, GALLAGHER, HEVESI, SEAWRIGHT,
          DINOWITZ, SIMON, FORREST, COLTON -- 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

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reporting of home
          care service usage

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  3614-g to read as follows:
     3    § 3614-g. Reporting of home care service usage. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this section, the term "managed care plan" means  a  managed  care  plan
     5  operating  under  section  three  hundred  sixty-four-j  of  the  social
     6  services law or article forty-four of this chapter  and  providing  home
     7  care services in the medical assistance program.
     8    2. On an annual basis, the department shall publish on its website, in
     9  a searchable and accessible format, the following information:
    10    (a)  the  number of individuals receiving home care services listed by
    11  type of home care service; county of recipient; and services  authorized
    12  by  the  local  department  of  social services and by each managed care
    13  plan;
    14    (b) the number of individuals receiving home care services by specific
    15  public third-party payors;
    16    (c) the number of individuals who have had a permanent  transfer  from
    17  home care services to a nursing home or assisted living facility; and
    18    (d)  aggregated information about service usage, including the average
    19  number of hours authorized across all recipients of home  care  services
    20  during  the  previous  reporting  period  by type of service, payor, and
    21  county.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04828-02-3
        A. 1926--A                          2

     1    3. Nothing in this section shall require or permit the  disclosure  of
     2  any  individual  identifying  information  by  the department, except as
     3  otherwise authorized by law.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.