Bill Text: NY A08916 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 13-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-06 - reported referred to ways and means [A08916 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8916
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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