Bill Text: NY S08022 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Applies a special Medicaid rate of no less than one hundred twenty percent of the fee-for-service rate for residential health care facilities located in a county larger than two thousand square miles and operated by an organization with two hundred fifty certified beds or more.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-10 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08022 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S08022-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8022 IN SENATE March 10, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 applying a special Medicaid rate for certain residential health care facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-c of section 2808 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows: 3 (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the 4 contrary, any residential health care facility established pursuant to 5 this article located in a county larger than two thousand square miles 6 and operated by an organization with two hundred fifty certified beds or 7 more in such county on January first, two thousand twenty shall be reim- 8 bursed at a rate of no less than one hundred twenty percent of the fee- 9 for-service rate of reimbursement, calculated pursuant to this section, 10 for such facility for inpatient services provided on or after April 11 first, two thousand twenty. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15649-02-0
