Bill Text: NY S06766 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to participation in managed long term care plans by medical assistance recipients in the traumatic brain injury waiver program and the nursing home transition and diversion waiver program; directs the commissioner of health to establish a statewide neurobehavioral resource project specializing in the evaluation and development of behavioral support plans for individuals with traumatic brain injuries.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to ways and means [S06766 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06766-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6766
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 18, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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  participation  in
          managed  long  term care plans by medical assistance recipients in the
          traumatic brain injury waiver program and the nursing home  transition
          and diversion waiver program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Clauses 2 and 3 of subparagraph (v)  of  paragraph  (b)  of
     2  subdivision  7 of section 4403-f of the public health law, as amended by
     3  section 48 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, are amended  and
     4  three  new  subparagraphs  (v-a),  (v-b)  and (v-c) are added to read as
     5  follows:
     6    (2) a participant in the traumatic brain injury waiver  program  or  a
     7  person  whose  circumstances would qualify him or her for the program as
     8  it existed on January first, two thousand fifteen;
     9    (3) a participant in the nursing home transition and diversion  waiver
    10  program or a person whose circumstances would qualify him or her for the
    11  program as it existed on January first, two thousand fifteen;
    12    (v-a)  For  purposes  of  clause (2) of subparagraph (v) of this para-
    13  graph, program features  shall  be  substantially  comparable  to  those
    14  services  offered  to  traumatic  brain injury waiver participants as of
    15  January first, two thousand fifteen, including but not limited to:
    16    (1) full-time service coordinators who may  not  exceed  caseloads  of
    17  seventeen  program  patients per coordinator and may not be employees of
    18  the participant's managed care plan;
    19    (2) home and community support services;
    20    (3) positive behavioral interventions and caregiver support services;
    21    (4) community integration counseling services provided in an  individ-
    22  ual or group setting;
    23    (5) appropriately structured day program services;
    24    (6)  independent  living  skills  training  and  development  services
    25  provided in an individual or group setting;
    26    (7) substance abuse program services;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14048-01-6