Bill Text: NY S08549 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sets the reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services to be a rate that is not less than the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant to the medical assistance program under title eleven of article five of the social services law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-13 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S08549 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08549-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8549

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the  insurance  law,  in  relation  to  setting  minimum
          reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (I) of  paragraph  35  of  subsection  (i)  of
     2  section  3216  of the insurance law is amended by adding a new item (vi)
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (vi) Reimbursement for covered services provided by  a  mobile  crisis
     5  intervention  services provider shall be at a rate that is not less than
     6  the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant  to  the  medical
     7  assistance  program  under  title  eleven  of article five of the social
     8  services law.
     9    § 2. Subparagraph (I) of paragraph 5 of subsection (l) of section 3221
    10  of the insurance law is amended by adding a new item  (vi)  to  read  as
    11  follows:
    12    (vi)  Reimbursement  for  covered services provided by a mobile crisis
    13  intervention services provider shall be at a rate that is not less  than
    14  the  rate  that  would be paid for such services pursuant to the medical
    15  assistance program under title eleven of  article  five  of  the  social
    16  services law.
    17    §  3.  Paragraph 10 of subsection (g) of section 4303 of the insurance
    18  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as follows:
    19    (F) Reimbursement for covered services provided  by  a  mobile  crisis
    20  intervention  services provider shall be at a rate that is not less than
    21  the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant  to  the  medical
    22  assistance  program  under  title  eleven  of article five of the social
    23  services law.
    24    § 4. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    25  manner  as subpart A of part II of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, takes
    26  effect, and shall apply to policies and contracts issued, renewed, modi-
    27  fied, altered, or amended on and after such date.

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