Bill Text: NY A02786 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits the filing and paying of otherwise-valid medical assistance claims that are not timely filed due to the implementation of a new or upgraded electronic medical record system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-06 - enacting clause stricken [A02786 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02786-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2786 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to timely filing of Medicaid claims The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 367-b of the social services law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows: 3 (d) The commissioner shall provide by regulation for a delay reason 4 code to allow the filing and paying of otherwise-valid medical assist- 5 ance claims that are not submitted in accordance with the department's 6 timely filing requirements due to the implementation of a new or 7 upgraded electronic medical record system. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 9 become a law. The commissioner of health shall make regulations and take 10 other actions reasonably necessary to implement this act on its effec- 11 tive date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03864-01-9
