Bill Text: NY A08694 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-04 - enacting clause stricken [A08694 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08694-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8694 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY October 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of in-home private duty nursing services to a recipient of medical assistance by a relative who is a registered professional nurse The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 365-o to read as follows: 3 § 365-o. Provision of in-home private duty nursing services by the 4 relative of a recipient. Upon application or request to the commissioner 5 by a recipient of medical assistance, or his or her representative or 6 guardian, who has been approved for the provision of in-home private 7 duty nursing, the commissioner may authorize the provision of such 8 private duty nursing by a relative of such recipient, subject to the 9 limitations relating thereto for personal assistants in subdivision 10 three of section three hundred sixty-five-f of this title, who is a 11 registered professional nurse, in good standing, licensed pursuant to 12 section sixty-nine hundred five of the education law. Reimbursement for 13 private nursing services provided in accordance with this section shall 14 be at the rate paid for the provision of such services by a licensed 15 practical nurse. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11506-02-7