Bill Text: NY A04070 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the reimbursement of local services provided to persons with a disability; provides for retroactive reimbursement if local services were furnished prior to approval.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A04070 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04070-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4070--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, KELLES, BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement of certain programs and services for persons with a disability The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 43.13 to read as follows: 3 § 43.13 Reimbursement of certain programs and services for persons with 4 a disability. 5 If a person who qualifies for and has entered into a program and/or 6 received a service furnished by a local service provider pursuant to 7 subdivision (a) of section 13.15 of this chapter subsequently enters 8 into a different program and/or receives a different service not yet 9 approved by the commissioner, provided such approval is ultimately 10 granted, the local service provider shall be reimbursed, after such 11 services have been rendered and approved, the cost of such program 12 and/or service as if it had been approved prior to such person's admis- 13 sion into such program or receipt of such service. If a service is ulti- 14 mately not approved and reimbursement has already occurred, such 15 reimbursement shall be returned to the office for people with develop- 16 mental disabilities within sixty days of notice of such denial. This 17 section shall apply to any services rendered on and after one year prior 18 to the effective date of this section. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04872-03-3