| Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2023-2024 state fiscal year; extends provisions of law relating to requiring the director of the budget, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to assess on a quarterly basis known and projected department of health state funds Medicaid expenditures by category of service and by geographic regions (Part A); relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to contracts between plans, insurers, or corporations and hospitals; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the amount of income to be applied toward the cost of medical care, services and supplies of institutionalized spouses; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions expanding medical assistance eligibility and the scope of services available to certain persons with disabilities; relates to the age of eligibility for home and community-based services waivers; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to body imaging scanning equipment; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to professional misconduct proceedings; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to regulating activities of physicians; extends the demonstration period in certain physician committees; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the operation of department of health facilities; relates to reimbursement rate promulgation for residential health care facilities; relates to certified home health agency services payments; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to limiting the method of payment for prescription drugs under the medical assistance program; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions continuing nursing home upper payment limit payments; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions encouraging comprehensive health services; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to increasing information available to patients; makes certain provisions relating to the statewide health information network of New York and the statewide planning and research cooperative system and general powers and duties permanent; extends the expiration of certain provisions relating to reimbursement to participating provider pharmacies and prescription drug coverage; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to rates for residential health care facilities; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to medical reimbursement and welfare reform; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to negotiation of supplemental rebates relating to medication assisted treatment; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to supplemental rebates; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the designation of statewide general hospital quality and sole community pools and the reduction of capital related inpatient expenses; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to authorizing services for non-residents in adult homes, residences for adults and enriched housing programs; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to authorizing bad debt and charity care allowances for certified home health agencies; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to medical reimbursement and welfare reform; extends government rates for behavioral services; adds an alternative payment methodology requirement; relates to residential health care facility assessments; repeals certain provisions relating to authorizing certain advanced home health aides to perform certain advanced tasks; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions expanding medical assistance eligibility and the scope of services available to certain persons with disabilities; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to electronic prescriptions (Part B); extends certain provisions relating to the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996; extends certain provisions relating to the New York Health Care Reform Act of 2000; extends certain provisions relating to the distribution of pool allocations and graduate medical education; extends health care initiative pool distributions; extends payment provisions for general hospitals; extends the assessments on covered lives (Part C); extends provisions of law relating to the general indigent care pool; relates to temporary adjustment to reimbursement rates (Part E); extends certain provisions relating to coverage of physicians and other medical professionals for malpractice liability (Part F); enacts the "1332 state innovation program"; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a 1332 state innovation program under section 1332 of the patient protection and affordable care act; defines terms; provides for enrollment; authorizes premiums and rates of payments; establishes the 1332 state innovation program fund (Part H); extends provisions relating to certain managed long-term care plans; provides an increase to certain fee-for-service Medicaid rates (Part I); authorizes Medicaid eligibility for certain services provided to individuals who are in a correctional institution, and for certain services provided to individuals who are in an institution for mental disease (Part K); expands the Medicaid Buy-In program for people with disabilities (Part N); establishes a statewide health care facility transformation program for the purpose of transforming, redesigning, and strengthening quality health care services in alignment with statewide and regional health care needs, and in the ongoing pandemic response (Part P); establishes Medicaid reimbursement for community health workers for high-risk populations; permits licensed mental health counselors, licensed creative arts therapists, and licensed marriage and family therapists in community health centers to be reimbursed (Part Q); expands Medicaid coverage of preventative health care services to certain care provided by nutritionists and dietitians and chronic disease self-management programs (Part R); relates to advice to be provided to the commissioner of health by the state and regional emergency medical services councils; and to recruitment and retention of personnel into the emergency medical system fields (Part S); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to authorizing certain advanced home health aides to perform certain advanced tasks (Part W); provides for the registration of temporary health care services agencies with the department of health (Part X); provides for affidavits for medical debt actions (Subpart A); requires hospitals participating in the general hospital indigent care pool to use certain forms for the collection of medical debt (Subpart C); guarantees fund coverage for insurers writing health insurance (Subpart D) (Part Y); requires hepatitis C screening of certain persons and third trimester syphilis testing (Part AA); establishes a cost of living adjustment for designated human services programs (Part DD); extends certain provisions of the health and mental hygiene budget for the 2013-2014 state fiscal year relating to public health and social services (Part EE); provides for certification of community behavioral health clinics; creates a certified community behavioral health clinics indigent care program (Part HH); establishes a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing (Part KK); relates to coverage for services provided by school-based health centers for medical assistance recipients and extends provisions relating to managed care programs (Part LL); relates to the eligibility for health homes (Part MM); repeals provisions relating to prescription drugs under the Medicaid program (Part NN); expands healthcare services provided by telehealth (Part OO). |
