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A01612 Summary:

BILL NOA01612A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S06319
 
SPONSORMagnarelli
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §2826, Pub Health L
 
Makes assisted living programs eligible for access funding under the vital access provider program.
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A01612 Actions:

BILL NOA01612A
 
01/12/2017referred to health
05/08/2017amend and recommit to health
05/08/2017print number 1612a
01/03/2018referred to health
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A01612 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1612--A
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to Medicaid providers
          eligible for access funding under the vital access provider program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 2826 of the public  health  law,
     2  as  added  by section 27 of part C of chapter 60 of the laws of 2014, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, within funds
     5  appropriated and  subject  to  the  availability  of  federal  financial
     6  participation,  the  commissioner  may  grant  approval  of  a temporary
     7  adjustment to the non-capital components of  rates,  or  make  temporary
     8  lump-sum Medicaid payments, to eligible general hospitals, skilled nurs-
     9  ing  facilities, clinics [and], home care providers, and assisted living
    10  programs, provided however, that should federal financial  participation
    11  not  be  available  for any eligible provider, then payments pursuant to
    12  this subdivision may be made as grants and shall not  be  deemed  to  be
    13  medical assistance payments.
    14    §  2.  Paragraph  (i) of subdivision (f) of section 2826 of the public
    15  health law, as added by section 14 of part B of chapter 57 of  the  laws
    16  of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
    17    (i)  Providers  serving rural areas as such term is defined in section
    18  two thousand nine hundred fifty-one of this chapter, including  but  not
    19  limited to hospitals, residential health care facilities, diagnostic and
    20  treatment   centers,  ambulatory  surgery  centers  [and],  clinics  and
    21  assisted living programs shall be  eligible  for  enhanced  payments  or
    22  reimbursement  under  a supplemental rate methodology for the purpose of
    23  promoting access and improving the quality of care.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00646-02-7
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