Bill Text: NY S08447 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for medicaid reimbursement for emergency medical services when treatment in place is administered and/or when transportation is provided to alternative health care settings instead of a general hospital.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S08447 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8447

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sens. HINCHEY, MAY -- 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  medicaid
          reimbursement for treatment in place and transportation to alternative
          health care settings by ambulance 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  367-y to read as follows:
     3    §  367-y.  Reimbursement  for treatment in place and transportation to
     4  alternative health care settings. 1. Notwithstanding  any  provision  of
     5  law  to  the  contrary,  any  provision  of  this  title  providing  for
     6  reimbursement of transportation costs for  an  ambulance  service  shall
     7  also  apply  where,  instead  of  providing  transportation to a general
     8  hospital, such ambulance service:
     9    (a) Administers treatment in place; and/or
    10    (b) Transports an individual to an alternative health care setting.
    11    2. For the purposes of this section, the following  terms  shall  have
    12  the following meanings:
    13    (a)  "Alternative health care setting" means a facility or institution
    14  that is:
    15    (i) a crisis stabilization center or  certified  community  behavioral
    16  health  clinic  operating  pursuant  to article thirty-six of the mental
    17  hygiene law;
    18    (ii) a facility under section 7.17 of the mental hygiene law;
    19    (iii) a facility providing addiction disorder services  and/or  behav-
    20  ioral  health services, as such terms are defined by section 1.03 of the
    21  mental hygiene law;
    22    (iv) a diagnostic and treatment center established pursuant to article
    23  twenty-eight of the public health law, or  an  upgraded  diagnostic  and
    24  treatment  center  designated  as  such  pursuant to section twenty-nine
    25  hundred fifty-six of the public health law;
    26    (v) a federally qualified health center; or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (vi) engaged principally in providing services by or under the  super-
     2  vision  of  a physician licensed under article one hundred thirty-one of
     3  the education law.
     4    (b)  "Ambulance  service"  shall  have  the same meaning as defined by
     5  section three thousand one of the public health law.
     6    (c) "General hospital" shall have  the  same  meaning  as  defined  by
     7  section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law.
     8    (d) "Treatment in place" means the administration of emergency medical
     9  services,  as defined by section three thousand one of the public health
    10  law, by an employee or volunteer of an ambulance service.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    12  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.