Bill Text: NY A04070 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4070--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        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