Bill Text: NY A02788 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to payments for home and community based long term care services; provides that funds appropriated to compensate for minimum wage requirements, shall not be subject to managed care risk adjustment on insurers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-28 - reported referred to ways and means [A02788 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2788
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to payments for  home
          and community based long term care services
          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-f to read as follows:
     3    §  3614-f.  Payments  for  home  and  community  based  long term care
     4  services. The payment of claims submitted under contracts or  agreements
     5  with insurers under the medical assistance program for home and communi-
     6  ty  based  long  term  care  services  provided under this article or by
     7  fiscal  intermediaries  operating  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
     8  sixty-five-f  of  the  social  services law shall provide that any funds
     9  appropriated to compensate for minimum  wage  pursuant  to  section  six
    10  hundred  fifty-two  of  the  labor  law shall be provided by insurers in
    11  amendments to existing contracts with home and community based long term
    12  care services providers under this article and to fiscal  intermediaries
    13  operating  pursuant  to section three hundred sixty-five-f of the social
    14  services law at least ninety days prior to the  effective  date  of  any
    15  such  law  or  regulation  impacting  wages. Insurers shall provide such
    16  funds in an amount that supplements any current contracts or  agreements
    17  and  shall not use such funds to supplant payments for existing services
    18  under the Medicaid program. Such  insurers  shall  include  but  not  be
    19  limited  to  Medicaid  managed care plans and Medicaid managed long term
    20  care plans.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03873-01-9