Bill Text: NY A09293 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities who are Medicaid eligible adults eighteen years of age or older with a diagnosis of a neurological, muscular, or neuromuscular condition, and a mobility impairment; provides that a specialized health home shall be reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis and shall receive enhanced rates of payment; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-01 - reported referred to ways and means [A09293 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09293-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9293

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2022
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  a  specialized
          health  home  program to serve certain individuals with physical disa-
          bilities

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  365-l  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-e to read as follows:
     3    2-e. The  commissioner  shall  establish  a  specialized  health  home
     4  program to serve individuals with physical disabilities who are Medicaid
     5  eligible  adults  eighteen  years  of age or older with a diagnosis of a
     6  neurological, muscular,  or  neuromuscular  condition,  and  a  mobility
     7  impairment.  A specialized health home shall be reimbursed on a fee-for-
     8  service basis and shall receive enhanced rates of payment established by
     9  the commissioner. The commissioner is authorized and directed  to  apply
    10  for  federal  waivers  or  state plan amendments if such action would be
    11  necessary to assist in promoting the  objectives  of  this  subdivision.
    12  Specialized  health  homes  receiving funds under this subdivision shall
    13  document and demonstrate the effective use of funds distributed  herein.
    14  The  commissioner  shall establish standards for operation of a special-
    15  ized health home, including regulations to implement this subdivision.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have  become  a  law.  Effective immediately, the commissioner of health
    18  shall make regulations and take  all  actions  reasonably  necessary  to
    19  implement this act on that date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14675-01-2