Bill Text: NY A07584 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to audits conducted by the office of Medicaid inspector general detecting ministerial or clerical errors that generate an overpayment to a vendor providing non-emergency medical transportation services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A07584 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07584-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7584

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ALVAREZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  audits  conducted
          by  the  office of Medicaid inspector general detecting ministerial or
          clerical errors that generate an overpayment to certain services

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 37
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  37.  Overpayment;  procedures,  practices  and standards in certain
     4  instances. 1. Subject to federal law or regulation, recovery of an over-
     5  payment resulting from the issuance of a final  audit  report  or  final
     6  notice  of  agency  action by the inspector shall commence not less than
     7  sixty days after the issuance of the final audit report or final  notice
     8  of  agency action regarding the delivery of non-emergency medical trans-
     9  portation services to recipients  enrolled  in  the  medical  assistance
    10  program.
    11    2.  Any vendor providing non-emergency medical transportation services
    12  who has been compensated for such service, and after an audit  conducted
    13  by  the inspector, had such compensation disqualified and denominated an
    14  overpayment due to a ministerial or inadvertent error in record keeping,
    15  may be afforded a reasonable time  to  provide  and  submit  independent
    16  proof that such service was actually rendered to a recipient enrolled in
    17  the  medical  assistance  program. In such instances, subject to federal
    18  law or regulation, the inspector shall amend the final  audit  or  final
    19  notice  of  agency  action  to  eliminate and reduce the overpayment sum
    20  stated therein, including any extrapolation  calculation  derivative  of
    21  such  alleged  overpayment, for each instance that the vendor can estab-
    22  lish by independent proof that  transportation  services  were  actually
    23  rendered to a recipient enrolled in the medical assistance program.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11561-01-3
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