Bill Text: NY A11200 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to payments for home and community based long term care services; provides that funds appropriated to compensate for minimum wage requirements, shall not be subject to managed care risk adjustment on insurers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-14 - referred to health [A11200 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A11200-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11200 IN ASSEMBLY June 14, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to payments for home and community based long term care services 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 3614-f to read as follows: 3 § 3614-f. Payments for home and community based long term care 4 services. The payment of claims submitted under contracts or agreements 5 with insurers under the medical assistance program for home and communi- 6 ty based long term care services provided under this article or by 7 fiscal intermediaries operating pursuant to section three hundred 8 sixty-five-f of the social services law shall provide that any funds 9 appropriated to compensate for minimum wage pursuant to section six 10 hundred fifty-two of the labor law shall be provided by insurers in 11 amendments to existing contracts with home and community based long term 12 care services providers under this article and to fiscal intermediaries 13 operating pursuant to section three hundred sixty-five-f of the social 14 services law at least ninety days prior to the effective date of any 15 such law or regulation impacting wages. Insurers shall provide such 16 funds in an amount that supplements any current contracts or agreements 17 and shall not use such funds to supplant payments for existing services 18 under the Medicaid program. Such insurers shall include but not be 19 limited to Medicaid managed care plans and Medicaid managed long term 20 care plans. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15643-03-8