Bill Text: NY S01967 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation management brokers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01967-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1967

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law, in relation to the use of
          transportation management brokers

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (vi)  of  paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of
     2  section 365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of  part
     3  LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (vi)  [Responsibility for transportation services provided or arranged
     5  for enrollees of] Providers of adult day health care  and  managed  long
     6  term  care  plans  issued certificates of authority under section forty-
     7  four hundred three-f of the public health law[, not including] may elect
     8  to, but shall not be required to, use the services of the transportation
     9  management broker. Provided, however, a program designated as a  Program
    10  of  All-Inclusive  Care  for the Elderly (PACE) as authorized by Federal
    11  Public law 1053-33, subtitle I of title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of
    12  1997[, and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate
    13  benefits for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid  beneficiaries  based
    14  on  a  demonstration by the plan that inclusion of transportation within
    15  the benefit  package  will  result  in  cost  efficiencies  and  quality
    16  improvement,  shall be transferred to a transportation management broker
    17  that has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this  para-
    18  graph. Providers of adult day health care may elect to, but shall not be
    19  required  to,  use the services of the transportation management broker]
    20  shall not be required to use the services of the transportation  manage-
    21  ment broker.
    22    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    23  ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall
    24  be subject to the expiration and reversion of such section  pursuant  to
    25  subdivision  (a)  of  section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of the laws of
    26  2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith.

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