Bill Text: NY S06054 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-05 - referred to ways and means [S06054 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06054-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6054--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HANNON, FELDER, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of in-home private duty nursing services to a recipient of medical assistance by a relative who is a registered professional nurse The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 365-o to read as follows: 3 § 365-o. Provision of in-home private duty nursing services by the 4 relative of a recipient. Upon application or request to the commissioner 5 by a recipient of medical assistance, or his or her representative or 6 guardian, who has been approved for the provision of in-home private 7 duty nursing, the commissioner may authorize the provision of such 8 private duty nursing by an adult relative of such recipient, other than 9 a spouse of the recipient, who is a registered professional nurse. 10 Reimbursement for private nursing services provided in accordance with 11 this section shall be at the rate paid for the provision of such 12 services by a licensed practical nurse. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11506-06-8