Bill Text: NY S06663 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to authorize additional reimbursement to providers of health and dental care primarily serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for uncompensated time, use of staff, and services that are necessary to support treatment of a patient as a result of the patient's physical, intellectual, or developmental disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06663 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06663-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6663

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- 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  directing  the
          commissioner  of  health  to  authorize  additional  reimbursement  to
          providers of health and dental care primarily serving individuals with
          intellectual and developmental disabilities for certain services

          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-p to read as follows:
     3    § 365-p. Additional reimbursement. Notwithstanding any other provision
     4  of law, the commissioner of health shall authorize additional reimburse-
     5  ment to providers of health and dental care primarily  serving  individ-
     6  uals  with intellectual and developmental disabilities for uncompensated
     7  time, use of staff, and services that are necessary to support treatment
     8  of a patient as a result of the  patient's  physical,  intellectual,  or
     9  developmental disability.  Such additional reimbursement shall be suffi-
    10  cient  to  cover  the  actual  cost  of providing such necessary support
    11  services associated with treatment.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10740-01-3