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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1926

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, GALLAGHER, HEVESI, SEAWRIGHT,
          DINOWITZ, SIMON, FORREST, COLTON -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Health

        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 a quarterly basis, the department shall publish on its website,
     9  in 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.
    22    3.  Nothing  in this section shall require or permit the disclosure of
    23  any individual identifying information  by  the  department,  except  as
    24  otherwise authorized by law.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04828-01-3