Requires the commissioner of health to publish certain information relating to home care services usage on the department's website on an annual basis including the number of individuals receiving care, those that have had permanent transfers and aggregated service usage.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A1926A
SPONSOR: Gonzalez-Rojas TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to reporting of home
care service usage
PURPOSE:
This bill would require the department of health to publish certain
information relating to home care services usage on the department's
website on an annual basis.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends section 364-j of the social services law to require
that the Department of Health prepare and publish a report on home care
service provision and usage. It includes the frequency of the report,
the components of the report, and how it should be published on the
website of the Department of Health.
Section 2: Provides that the provisions of this act shall take effect
immediately.
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently there is no transparency related to the service provision and
usage of home care services in New York State. This makes it difficult
to know the number of individuals receiving home care services, the type
of home care services being provided, and aggregated Information about
service usage, including the average number of hours authorized across
all recipients during the previous reporting period by type of service,
payor, and county.
This legislation would require the Department of Health to prepare a
report on an annual basis and publish it on its website, in a searchable
and accessible format. The information outlined would include the
providers of home care services, managed care plans, and local depart-
ments of social services under existing laws and regulations.
Nothing in this section shall require or permit the disclosure of any
personally identifiable information by the Department of Health, except
as otherwise authorized by law.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021: Reported to Health committee 2022: Reported to Health committee
2022: Amended and recommitted to Health committee (twice).
2022: Reported to Ways and Means committee
2022: Amended and recommitted to Ways and Means committee
BUDGET IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1926--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, GALLAGHER, HEVESI, SEAWRIGHT,
DINOWITZ, SIMON, FORREST, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reporting of home
care service usage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 3614-g to read as follows:
3 § 3614-g. Reporting of home care service usage. 1. For the purposes of
4 this section, the term "managed care plan" means a managed care plan
5 operating under section three hundred sixty-four-j of the social
6 services law or article forty-four of this chapter and providing home
7 care services in the medical assistance program.
8 2. On an annual basis, the department shall publish on its website, in
9 a searchable and accessible format, the following information:
10 (a) the number of individuals receiving home care services listed by
11 type of home care service; county of recipient; and services authorized
12 by the local department of social services and by each managed care
13 plan;
14 (b) the number of individuals receiving home care services by specific
15 public third-party payors;
16 (c) the number of individuals who have had a permanent transfer from
17 home care services to a nursing home or assisted living facility; and
18 (d) aggregated information about service usage, including the average
19 number of hours authorized across all recipients of home care services
20 during the previous reporting period by type of service, payor, and
21 county.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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A. 1926--A 2
1 3. Nothing in this section shall require or permit the disclosure of
2 any individual identifying information by the department, except as
3 otherwise authorized by law.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
