| Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2026-2027 state fiscal year; extends provisions requiring the quarterly assessment of known and projected department of health state fund Medicaid expenditures (Part A); extends certain health provisions (Part B); extends certain provisions of law relating to the health care reform act; extends provisions relating to the distribution of pool allocations and graduate medical education; extends provisions relating to health care initiative pool distributions; extends payment provisions for general hospitals; extends provisions relating to assessments on covered lives (Part C); relates to insurance coverage for medical malpractice paid for by funds from the hospital excess liability pool; extends portions of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part D); repeals certain provisions of law relating to adult living programs for adult care facilities and enriched housing in such facilities; repeals certain provisions of law relating to the tick-borne disease institute; repeals certain provisions of law relating to compliance plans regarding the working conditions and hours for certain employees and trainees in general hospitals (Part E); makes technical corrections and updates (Part F); relates to automated external defibrillators (Part G); enhances requirements for notices of material transactions (Part H); relates to Medicaid reimbursement rates (Part I); relates to temporary health care services agencies and protecting individuals engaged to provide health care services by such agencies (Part J); relates to providing approval to operate a mobile integrated and community paramedicine program; extends authorization for the community-based paramedicine demonstration program; authorizes certified nurse practitioners and licensed physicians to prescribe and order a non-patient specific regimen for administering immunizations to an emergency medical services practitioner; extends hospital services outside the facility and into patients' residences (Part K); restores capital rate reductions for nursing homes and adjusts premiums for the Medicaid buy-in for working persons with disabilities (Part L); limits the amount payable for certain services provided to certain eligible persons who are also beneficiaries under part B of title XVII of the federal social security act or are also qualified Medicare beneficiaries, extends the cooling off period for health maintenance organization plan contracts with hospitals from two months to one hundred twenty days, and clarifies Medicaid requirements for biomarker testing (Part M); relates to the scope and practice of medical assistants (Subpart A); relates to the scope of practice of certified nurse aides (Subpart B); authorizes a qualified health care provider working in the scope of their practice to evaluate pupils or bus drivers suspected of a concussion or cardiac arrest (Subpart C); repeals certain articles of the education law governing certain healthcare professions and adding such laws to the public health law and transferring all functions, powers, duties, obligations and appropriations relating thereto (Subpart D); provides for the performance of medical services by physician assistants (Subpart E) (Part N); relates to hospital and nursing home fee-for-service reimbursement rates (Part O); directs 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 director of the state office for the aging to establish a state fiscal year 2026-2027 targeted inflationary increase for projecting for the effects of inflation upon rates of payments, contracts, or any other form of reimbursement for certain programs and services; and requires such commissioners and director to provide funding to support a 1.7% targeted inflationary increase for such programs and services (Part P); authorizes the commissioner of mental health and the commissioner of addiction services and supports to jointly license integrated behavior health services programs, and makes related provisions (Part Q); relates to substance-related and addictive disorder services (Part R); repeals provisions relating to requiring the justice center administer an adult home and residence for adults resident advocacy program (Part S). |
