Bill Text: NY A05144 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for cost allowances for strategic capital investments in technology infrastructure for certain home health care programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-01 - enacting clause stricken [A05144 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05144-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5144--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 20, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, SCHIMEL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A.  JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations,
         Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee on  Corpo-
         rations,  Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Assembly Rule
         3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public health law and the public authorities law, in
         relation  to  cost  allowances  for  strategic capital investments for
         technology infrastructure of certain home health care programs
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 3614 of the public health law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
    3    3-B. STRATEGIC CAPITAL INVESTMENT  ALLOWANCES.  (A)  FOR  ANNUAL  RATE
    4  PERIODS ON AND AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, IN DETERMINING
    5  THE PROPOSED RATE SCHEDULES FOR PAYMENTS FOR CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AGEN-
    6  CY  SERVICES OR SERVICES PROVIDED BY LONG TERM HOME HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS
    7  OR AIDS HOME CARE PROGRAMS, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE IN SUCH RATES
    8  AN ALLOWANCE FOR COSTS INCURRED FOR  STRATEGIC  CAPITAL  INVESTMENTS  BY
    9  SUCH AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONIC MEDICAL
   10  RECORDS, DISEASE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY, MEDICATION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY
   11  AND  OTHER  INVESTMENTS  RELATED TO THEIR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE. THE
   12  PURPOSE OF SUCH ALLOWANCE SHALL BE  TO  IMPROVE  THE  QUALITY  OF  CARE,
   13  IMPROVE  THE  COST-EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF SUCH AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS AND
   14  FACILITATE THE FULFILLMENT OF THE STATE'S HEALTH CARE GOALS. SUCH ALLOW-
   15  ANCE SHALL BE FACTORED IN AS A COMPONENT OF THE RATE SCHEDULE AFTER, AND
   16  SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO, THE APPLICATION OF ANY ADJUSTMENTS, CEILINGS OR
   17  LIMITATIONS ON SUCH RATE SCHEDULES.
   18    (B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW  OR  REGULATION,
   19  THE  ALLOWANCES  PROVIDED FOR IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00942-03-4
       A. 5144--A                          2
    1  BE SUBJECT TO AMOUNTS AS MAY  BE  ALLOCATED  OR  APPROPRIATED  FOR  SUCH
    2  PURPOSES.
    3    S 2. The opening paragraph of section 1680-j of the public authorities
    4  law,  as  amended  by  section 54 of part B of chapter 58 of the laws of
    5  2005, is amended to read as follows:
    6    Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the dormi-
    7  tory authority of the state of New York is hereby  authorized  to  issue
    8  bonds  or  notes  in one or more series in an aggregate principal amount
    9  not to exceed seven hundred fifty million dollars excluding bonds issued
   10  to fund one or more debt service reserve funds, to pay costs of issuance
   11  of such bonds, and bonds or notes issued to refund  or  otherwise  repay
   12  such  bonds  or  notes  previously issued, for the purposes of financing
   13  project costs authorized under section twenty-eight hundred eighteen  of
   14  the  public health law. Of such seven hundred fifty million dollars, ten
   15  million dollars shall be made available to the community health  centers
   16  capital  program  established  pursuant  to section twenty-eight hundred
   17  seventeen of the public health law, AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS  SHALL  BE
   18  MADE  AVAILABLE TO CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AGENCIES, LONG TERM HOME HEALTH
   19  CARE PROGRAMS AND AIDS HOME CARE PROGRAMS FOR STRATEGIC CAPITAL  INVEST-
   20  MENTS  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  THREE-B  OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED
   21  FOURTEEN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   22    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
   23  the date on which it shall have become a law.