Bill Text: NY S08806 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that transportation management brokers contracted with the department of health shall not have responsibility for services provided to enrollees of medicaid managed long term care plans or a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-17 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S08806 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S08806-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8806 IN SENATE April 19, 2022 ___________ 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 reimbursement of transportation costs for certain enrollees under Medicaid The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of 2 section 365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part 3 LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 (vi) [Responsibility] The broker authorized under this paragraph shall 5 not have responsibility for transportation services provided or arranged 6 for enrollees of managed long term care plans issued certificates of 7 authority under section forty-four hundred three-f of the public health 8 law, [not including] nor a program designated as a Program of All-Inclu- 9 sive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as authorized by Federal Public law 10 1053-33, subtitle I of title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997[,11and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate bene-12fits for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries based on a13demonstration by the plan that inclusion of transportation within the14benefit package will result in cost efficiencies and quality improve-15ment, shall be transferred to a transportation management broker that16has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this paragraph]. 17 Providers of adult day health care may elect to, but shall not be 18 required to, use the services of the transportation management broker. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 20 ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall 21 be subject to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to 22 subdivision (a) of section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of the laws of 23 2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15341-01-2