Bill Text: NY A06020 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation management brokers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A06020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06020-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6020--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on  Ways
          and  Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  the  use  of
          transportation management brokers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  4  of
     2  section  365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part
     3  LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (vi) [Responsibility for transportation services provided or  arranged
     5  for  enrollees  of]  Providers of adult day health care and managed long
     6  term care plans issued certificates of authority  under  section  forty-
     7  four hundred three-f of the public health law[, not including] may elect
     8  to, but shall not be required to, use the services of the transportation
     9  management  broker. Provided, however, a program designated as a Program
    10  of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as  authorized  by  Federal
    11  Public law 1053-33, subtitle I of title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of
    12  1997[, and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate
    13  benefits  for  dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries based
    14  on a demonstration by the plan that inclusion of  transportation  within
    15  the  benefit  package  will  result  in  cost  efficiencies  and quality
    16  improvement, shall be transferred to a transportation management  broker
    17  that  has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this para-
    18  graph. Providers of adult day health care may elect to, but shall not be
    19  required to, use the services of the transportation  management  broker]
    20  shall  not be required to use the services of the transportation manage-
    21  ment broker.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
    23  ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall
    24  be  subject  to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to
    25  subdivision (a) of section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of  the  laws  of
    26  2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08103-02-3