Bill Text: NY S02124 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows physician assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of Medicaid managed care plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-26 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S02124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02124-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2124

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. RIVERA, BROUK, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS -- 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 allowing physi-
          cian assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of
          Medicaid managed care plans

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

     1    Section  1.    Paragraph  (f) of subdivision 1 of section 364-j of the
     2  social services law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of  1996,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (f) "Primary care practitioner".  A physician, physician assistant, or
     5  nurse  practitioner  providing  primary  care  to  and management of the
     6  medical and health care services of a participant served  by  a  managed
     7  care provider.
     8    §  2.    Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section
     9  364-j of the social services law, as amended by section 14 of part C  of
    10  chapter 58 of the laws of 2004,  is amended to read as follows:
    11    (i) a managed care provider shall arrange for access to and enrollment
    12  of primary care practitioners and other medical services providers. Each
    13  managed  care  provider  shall  possess  the  expertise  and  sufficient
    14  resources to assure the delivery of quality medical care to participants
    15  in an appropriate and timely manner and may include  physicians,  physi-
    16  cian assistants, nurse practitioners, county health departments, provid-
    17  ers  of  comprehensive health service plans licensed pursuant to article
    18  forty-four of the public health law, and hospitals  and  diagnostic  and
    19  treatment  centers  licensed  pursuant  to  article  twenty-eight of the
    20  public health law or otherwise authorized by law to offer  comprehensive
    21  health  services  or  facilities  licensed pursuant to articles sixteen,
    22  thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03585-01-3
        S. 2124                             2

     1    § 3.  This act shall become effective immediately;  provided  however,
     2  that  the amendments to section 364-j of the social services law made by
     3  sections one and two of this act shall not affect  the  repeal  of  such
     4  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.