Bill Text: NY S05969 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to medically fragile young adults and pediatric specialized nursing facilities; allows for such young adults to remain in such facilities from age twenty-one until age thirty-six.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - returned to senate [S05969 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5969

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to medically  fragile
          young adults and pediatric specialized nursing facilities

          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  2831 to read as follows:
     3    §  2831.  Medically  fragile  young  adults.  1.  For purposes of this
     4  section, "medically fragile young adults" shall have the same meaning as
     5  the term "medically  fragile  children"  as  set  forth  in  subdivision
     6  three-a of section thirty-six hundred fourteen of this chapter and shall
     7  include  medically fragile young adults who currently reside at a pedia-
     8  tric specialized nursing facility and are over twenty-one years of age.
     9    2. The department shall promulgate  rules  and  regulations  to  allow
    10  medically fragile young adults who reside in pediatric specialized nurs-
    11  ing  facilities  to  remain at such facilities after reaching the age of
    12  twenty-one and until they reach the age of thirty-six. The reimbursement
    13  methodology must remain the same as it was prior to  reaching  such  age
    14  and  include  a  daily per diem rate and coverage for bedholds. Medicaid
    15  reimbursement for this population for reserved beds due to  hospitaliza-
    16  tion  and  for  therapeutic and hospice leaves of absence must remain at
    17  one hundred percent of the Medicaid rate of medically fragile  children.
    18  The department may not institute a daily limit at each facility for this
    19  population.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    22  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    23  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    24  completed on or before such date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08318-01-3