| Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; requires the commissioner of health to provide a quarterly report on known and expected department of health state funds Medicaid expenditures through state fiscal year 2026-2027 (Part A); extends the effectiveness of various provisions relating to social services and healthcare; determines which contracts shall expire September 30, 2025 (Part B); reduces the hospital capital rate add-on (Part D); shifts long-term nursing home stays from managed care to fee for service (Part E); requires a health plan to pay the MCO provider tax for each calendar year; requires every health plan subject to the approved MCO provider tax to submit reports; imposes penalties for failure to submit such timely payments; grants the commissioner of health audit powers; relates to the healthcare stability fund; relates to Medicaid payment increases for certain medical services; makes certain Medicaid payment increases contingent upon the availability of funds within the healthcare stability fund; makes related provisions (Part F); extends certain provisions relating to the provisions of excess liability coverage paid for from the hospital excess liability pool; extends portions of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part G); eliminates the fee paid by funeral directors for permits for burials and removals which are used to support the electronic death registration system (Part I); relates to improving access to and increasing coverage for infertility treatments (Part Q); requires hospitals to have sexual assault forensic examiners (Part T); extends provisions relating to preferred sources for entities that provide employment to certain persons (Part Z); extends certain provisions relating to clarifying the commissioners in the department of mental hygiene to design and implement time-limited demonstration programs to March 31, 2026 (Part AA); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the appointment of temporary operators for the continued operation of programs and the provision of services for persons with serious mental illness and/or developmental disabilities and/or chemical dependence (Part BB); extends certain provisions relating to services for individuals with developmental disabilities (Part CC); provides that director of the budget, the commissioners of the office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office of addiction services and supports, office of temporary and disability assistance, office of children and family services, and the state office for the aging shall establish a state fiscal year 2025-2026 targeted inflationary increase, effective April 1, 2025, for projecting for the effects of inflation upon rates of payments, contracts, or any other form of reimbursement for the programs and services (Part FF); relates to school-based health centers for medical assistance recipients (Part GG); requires representatives from the division of criminal justice services to be included on mental health review panels; requires annual cumulative reports to be posted on the office of mental health's website (Part HH); establishes the behavioral health technical advisory center and statewide emergency and crisis council (Part II); provides for dentist loan repayment and practice support for dentists who agree to practice in an underserved area in the state (Part JJ); provides for discharge planning and voluntary services (Part KK). |
