Bill Text: NY A10459 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes reimbursement mechanisms for access to hospice services for residents of assisted living programs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-4)

Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-28 - tabled [A10459 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10459
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 23, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO, ARROYO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          ABBATE,  BARRON,  DICKENS,  JONES, MAGEE, McDONALD, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA,
          TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public  health  law,  in  relation  to  establishing
          reimbursement  mechanisms for access to hospice services for residents
          of assisted living programs
          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  4016 to read as follows:
     3    § 4016. Hospice services for residents of  assisted  living  programs.
     4  The  commissioner  shall promulgate regulations and implement reimburse-
     5  ment  mechanisms  to  enable  residents  of  assisted  living  programs,
     6  licensed  under  section four hundred sixty-one-l of the social services
     7  law, to access hospice services licensed under this article. Such  regu-
     8  lations  and reimbursement mechanisms shall be implemented no later than
     9  March thirty-first, two thousand nineteen.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15037-01-8