Bill Text: NY S07776 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: Requires that any state program implemented pursuant to an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to obtain federal financial supports for the implementation of a delivery system reform incentive payment ("DSRIP") program shall require that a minimum of forty percent of all funds awarded pursuant to a state DSRIP program, shall be disbursed to community-based health care providers for specific programs and services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-16 - PRINT NUMBER 7776A [S07776 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07776-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7776

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 18, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 requirements for
          certain state programs to obtain federal financial  supports  for  the
          implementation of a delivery system reform incentive payment program

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

     1    Section 1. Section 363-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of law, regulation, rule, federal
     4  waiver request, or agency guidance to the contrary,  any  state  program
     5  implemented  pursuant  to an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and
     6  Medicaid Services to obtain federal financial supports for the implemen-
     7  tation of a delivery system reform incentive payment  ("DSRIP")  program
     8  consistent  with  section 1115A of the federal Social Security Act shall
     9  require that a minimum of forty percent of all funds awarded pursuant to
    10  a state DSRIP program on or after November twenty-seventh, two  thousand
    11  nineteen,  shall  be  disbursed to community-based health care providers
    12  for the exclusive  purpose  of  supporting  the  programs  and  services
    13  defined  in this subdivision. For purposes of this subdivision, communi-
    14  ty-based health care providers shall be  defined  as  a  diagnostic  and
    15  treatment  center  licensed  or  granted  an operating certificate under
    16  article twenty-eight of the public health law other  than  those  owned,
    17  operated,  or  controlled  by  a  general hospital as defined in section
    18  twenty-eight hundred one of the  public  health  law;  a  mental  health
    19  outpatient  provider  licensed or granted an operating certificate under
    20  article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law; a substance  use  disorder
    21  treatment  provider  licensed  or granted an operating certificate under
    22  article thirty-two of the mental  hygiene  law;  a  clinic  licensed  or
    23  granted  an  operating  certificate  under article sixteen of the mental
    24  hygiene law; a patient-centered medical home  other  than  those  owned,
    25  operated,  or  controlled  by  a  general hospital as defined in section
    26  twenty-eight hundred one of the public  health  law;  a  community-based
    27  program  funded under the office of mental health, the office for people

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15406-01-0
        S. 7776                             2

     1  with developmental disabilities, the office of  addiction  services  and
     2  supports  or  through  a  local government unit as defined under article
     3  forty-one of the mental hygiene law (except programs eligible for  fund-
     4  ing  as  part  of  a DSRIP social determinant of health network); a home
     5  care provider certified or licensed pursuant to  article  thirty-six  of
     6  the public health law; a hospice provider licensed or granted an operat-
     7  ing certificate under article forty of the public health law; or a fami-
     8  ly  and  child  service provider licensed under article twenty-nine-I of
     9  the public health law.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
    11  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2020.