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

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

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-Introduced.html

---

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         5144
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 20, 2013
                                      ___________
       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
       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 FOURTEEN, IN  DETERMIN-
    5  ING  THE  PROPOSED RATE SCHEDULES FOR PAYMENTS FOR CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH
    6  AGENCY SERVICES OR SERVICES PROVIDED  BY  LONG  TERM  HOME  HEALTH  CARE
    7  PROGRAMS  OR  AIDS HOME CARE PROGRAMS, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE IN
    8  SUCH RATES AN ALLOWANCE FOR COSTS INCURRED FOR STRATEGIC CAPITAL INVEST-
    9  MENTS BY SUCH AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRON-
   10  IC MEDICAL RECORDS, DISEASE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY, MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
   11  TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER INVESTMENTS RELATED TO THEIR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUC-
   12  TURE. THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ALLOWANCE SHALL BE TO IMPROVE THE  QUALITY  OF
   13  CARE, IMPROVE THE COST-EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF SUCH AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS
   14  AND  FACILITATE  THE  FULFILLMENT OF THE STATE'S HEALTH CARE GOALS. SUCH
   15  ALLOWANCE SHALL BE FACTORED IN AS  A  COMPONENT  OF  THE  RATE  SCHEDULE
   16  AFTER,  AND SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO, THE APPLICATION OF ANY ADJUSTMENTS,
   17  CEILINGS OR 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
   20  BE SUBJECT TO AMOUNTS AS MAY  BE  ALLOCATED  OR  APPROPRIATED  FOR  SUCH
   21  PURPOSES.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00942-01-3
       A. 5144                             2
    1    S 2. The opening paragraph of section 1680-j of the public authorities
    2  law,  as  amended  by  section 54 of part B of chapter 58 of the laws of
    3  2005, is amended to read as follows:
    4    Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the dormi-
    5  tory  authority  of  the state of New York is hereby authorized to issue
    6  bonds or notes in one or more series in an  aggregate  principal  amount
    7  not to exceed seven hundred fifty million dollars excluding bonds issued
    8  to fund one or more debt service reserve funds, to pay costs of issuance
    9  of  such  bonds,  and bonds or notes issued to refund or otherwise repay
   10  such bonds or notes previously issued, for  the  purposes  of  financing
   11  project  costs authorized under section twenty-eight hundred eighteen of
   12  the public health law. Of such seven hundred fifty million dollars,  ten
   13  million  dollars shall be made available to the community health centers
   14  capital program established pursuant  to  section  twenty-eight  hundred
   15  seventeen  of  the public health law, AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS SHALL BE
   16  MADE AVAILABLE TO CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AGENCIES, LONG TERM HOME  HEALTH
   17  CARE  PROGRAMS AND AIDS HOME CARE PROGRAMS FOR STRATEGIC CAPITAL INVEST-
   18  MENTS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  THREE-B  OF  SECTION  THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED
   19  FOURTEEN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   20    S  3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
   21  that date on which it shall have become a law.