Bill Text: NY A06551 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring specific reserved bed days at New York State Veterans' Homes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-14)

Status: (Passed) 2022-11-10 - signed chap.586 [A06551 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06551-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6551--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SOLAGES, THIELE, WOERNER, STECK, ENGLEBRIGHT,
          McDONOUGH, JEAN-PIERRE, LAVINE,  SMITH,  WEPRIN,  STERN,  FITZPATRICK,
          SAYEGH,  GUNTHER,  MORINELLO, GRIFFIN, HUNTER, CUSICK, FALL, D. ROSEN-
          THAL,  MANKTELOW,  BRAUNSTEIN,   RA,   ASHBY,   DeSTEFANO,   BRABENEC,
          PHEFFER AMATO,  MONTESANO,  BARRETT, GANDOLFO, ABINANTI -- Multi-Spon-
          sored by -- M. of A.  BLANKENBUSH, HAWLEY, HEVESI, RAMOS -- read  once
          and  referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Commit-
          tee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  -- again reported from said committee with amend-
          ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring specific
          reserved bed days at the New York State Veterans' Homes

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

     1    Section  1. Section 2808 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 25-a to read as follows:
     3    25-a. Reserved bed days for state veterans' homes. (a) For purposes of
     4  this subdivision, a "reserved bed day" is a day for which the state pays
     5  New York State Veterans' Home at Oxford, the New  York  State  Veterans'
     6  Home  at  St.  Albans, the New York State Veterans' Home at Batavia, the
     7  New York State Veterans' Home at  Montrose  or  the  Long  Island  State
     8  Veterans'  Home  to  reserve  a  bed  for  a person eligible for medical
     9  assistance pursuant to title  eleven  of  article  five  of  the  social
    10  services law while he or she is temporarily hospitalized.
    11    (b)  (i) Payments for reserved bed days shall be made at fifty percent
    12  of the Medicaid rate otherwise payable  to  the  facility  for  services
    13  provided on behalf of the person.
    14    (ii) Payment to a facility for reserved bed days provided on behalf of
    15  the  person  for temporary hospitalizations may not exceed fourteen days
    16  in any twelve-month period.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03668-04-2
        A. 6551--B                          2

     1    (iii) The person must have resided in the applicable  State  Veterans'
     2  home  for  at  least  thirty  days  since the date of his or her initial
     3  admission.
     4    (iv)  Unless medically contraindicated, the applicable State Veterans'
     5  home shall reserve the same bed and  room  the  person  occupied  before
     6  being hospitalized or placed on a therapeutic leave of absence.
     7    (v)  Reserved  bed  days  under  this  subdivision  are in addition to
     8  reserve bed days for therapeutic  leave  of  absence  under  subdivision
     9  twenty-five of this section.
    10    (vi)  This  subdivision  shall  apply  subject  to the availability of
    11  federal financial participation.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have  become  a  law.  Effective  immediately the commissioner of health
    14  shall make regulations and take other actions  reasonably  necessary  to
    15  implement this act on that date.