Bill Text: NY A07845 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a program of health care quality innovation and improvement through home care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A07845 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07845-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7845

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to quality innovation
          and improvement through home care

          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
     2  3623 to read as follows:
     3    § 3623. Program for quality innovation and  improvement  through  home
     4  care. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and
     5  subject  to appropriated amounts, the commissioner, upon the approval of
     6  the director of the budget, shall provide grants  directly,  or  in  the
     7  form  of  supplemental  rate  payments,  for the purpose of supporting a
     8  program of health care quality innovation and improvement  through  home
     9  care.
    10    Eligible  entities  for  such  payments  shall include: certified home
    11  health agencies; long term home health care programs; licensed home care
    12  services agencies; managed long term care plans under section forty-four
    13  hundred three-f of this chapter for  initiatives  with  contracted  home
    14  care  agencies;  and  managed  care  plans  under  section three hundred
    15  sixty-four-j of the social services law for initiatives with  contracted
    16  home care agencies.
    17    2. Such program shall include, but not limited to:
    18    (a)  addressing  significant  public health problems and goals through
    19  home care, including falls prevention, health care disparities, septice-
    20  mia early identification and intervention, cardiovascular health,  pres-
    21  sure ulcer prevention, and other;
    22    (b) advances in care management and care transitions through home care
    23  partnership  with hospitals, physicians, health plans, behavioral health
    24  providers, nursing homes and/or other sectors, as well  as  for  coordi-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11267-01-3
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     1  nation  of primary, chronic and behavioral health care service planning,
     2  delivery and care management;
     3    (c)  implementation  of comprehensive quality measurement and improve-
     4  ment tools in home care, including, but not limited to  the  integration
     5  of  these tools into home care electronic records and reporting systems,
     6  and associated adaptation of software  and  connectivity  to  analytical
     7  systems;  such  tools shall promote and facilitate comprehensive quality
     8  monitoring,  improvement  and  innovation,  continuous  self-audit,  and
     9  priority  benchmarking and alignment and of home care with managed care,
    10  hospitals, primary care and integrated care models;
    11    (d) home care agency staff training  in  quality  and  specialty  care
    12  practice and/or care management techniques;
    13    (e) technology-based approaches to enhance patient care;
    14    (f)  population  health improvement through population studies, agency
    15  service analytics, staff training in population care  coordination,  and
    16  other, conducted by home care agencies;
    17    (g)  increased incorporation of evidenced based care practices through
    18  adoption and use of clinical guidelines, clinical pathways, and/or other
    19  best practice, by home care agencies; and/or
    20    (h) other initiatives to promote improved  patient  outcomes,  patient
    21  satisfaction,  service  coordination or access through home care, as the
    22  commissioner may approve.
    23    3. The commissioner, in consultation with representatives of home care
    24  providers, managed care plans and statewide associations  representative
    25  of  such providers and plans, shall establish a process for provider and
    26  managed care plan application  project  scoring,  and  for  approval  of
    27  payments  under  this  section.  If  federal  financial participation is
    28  unavailable, then the non-federal share of awards made pursuant to  this
    29  subdivision may be made as state grants.
    30    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.