Bill Text: NY A08006 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes residents of assisted living programs to receive hospice services; directs the commissioner of health to convene a workgroup of stakeholders to make recommendations as to coordination and division of services, responsibilities, and reimbursement of assisted living programs and hospice programs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2022-12-09 - approval memo.37 [A08006 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08006-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8006

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GOTTFRIED, LUPARDO -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social  services  law,  in
          relation  to  authorizing  residents  of  assisted  living programs to
          receive hospice services

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

     1    Section  1. Section 4012 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Eligible individuals shall be permitted to receive hospice services
     4  from a provider under this article while  continuing  to  reside  in  an
     5  adult  care  facility  under  title  two  of article seven of the social
     6  services law and enrolled in the assisted living  program.  The  commis-
     7  sioner  shall  make regulations and take other actions reasonably neces-
     8  sary and appropriate to implement this subdivision.
     9    § 2. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section  461-l  of  the  social
    10  services  law  is  amended  by adding a new subparagraph (iv) to read as
    11  follows:
    12    (iv) Eligible  individuals  shall  be  permitted  to  receive  hospice
    13  services  from  a  provider under article forty of the public health law
    14  while continuing to reside in an adult care facility  under  this  title
    15  and enrolled in the assisted living program. The commissioner shall make
    16  regulations  and take other actions reasonably necessary and appropriate
    17  to implement this subparagraph.
    18    § 3. The commissioner of health shall convene  a  workgroup  including
    19  representatives  of  associations  representing assisted living programs
    20  and hospice programs, and other interested parties  as  appropriate,  to
    21  make  recommendations  as  to  coordination and division of services and
    22  responsibilities, and reimbursement, of  assisted  living  programs  and
    23  hospice  programs  under  subdivision  4  of  section 4012 of the public

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11724-01-1
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     1  health law and paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section  461-l  of  the
     2  social services law.
     3    §  4.  This  act shall take effect immediately, provided that sections
     4  one and two of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  eightieth
     5  day after it shall have become a law.