Bill Text: NY A02830 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the Medicaid identification and anti-fraud biometric technology pilot program; appropriates money therefor.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A02830 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02830-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2830 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RODRIGUEZ, RA, RAIA, STEC, PALUMBO -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. FRIEND, JOHNS, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the Medicaid identification and anti-fraud biometric technology pilot program; and to amend the social services law, in relation to conform- ing medical assistance identification with the Medicaid identification and anti-fraud biometric technology program; and making an appropri- ation therefor 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 article 2 2-C to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 2-C 4 MEDICAID IDENTIFICATION AND ANTI-FRAUD BIOMETRIC 5 TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM 6 Section 295. Medicaid identification and anti-fraud biometric technology 7 pilot program. 8 296. Definitions. 9 297. Biometric technology use requirement. 10 298. Rules and regulations. 11 § 295. Medicaid identification and anti-fraud biometric technology 12 pilot program. There is hereby established the Medicaid identification 13 and anti-fraud biometric technology pilot program. 14 § 296. Definitions. As used in this article: 15 1. "Biometric technology" means technology that measures and analyzes 16 biological data, including but not limited to DNA, finger imaging, 17 vascular patterns, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial 18 patterns and hand measurements, for authentication purposes. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06840-01-9A. 2830 2 1 2. "Biometric verification device" means a device capable of using 2 biometric verification technology to verify the identity of a Medicaid 3 recipient or provider. 4 § 297. Biometric technology use requirement. 1. The department, in 5 consultation with the office of the Medicaid inspector general and the 6 office of the attorney general, shall develop a request for proposals to 7 implement a program authorizing the use of biometric technology for the 8 purposes of patient and provider identification and for use as an anti- 9 fraud application in the Medicaid program. 10 2. Such request for proposals shall include at a minimum that (a) 11 Medicaid recipients and providers shall provide biometric proof of their 12 identity along with other information deemed necessary by the commis- 13 sioner. 14 (b) Such program will be capable of storing biometric markers and a 15 log of doctor and pharmacy visits for each service billed to the Medi- 16 caid program. 17 (c) Medicaid identification shall be issued to and accepted by the 18 admitting staff of the health care facility. 19 (d) Medicaid recipients shall be required to provide biometric proof 20 of identity at the time of each visit to a doctor's office or clinic at 21 the point of actually being seen by the doctor or clinical staff, and 22 shall again provide proof of identity upon completion of care or 23 services. 24 (e) Provisions shall be included for emergency services or 25 prescriptions and alternate identification methods for Medicaid recipi- 26 ents physically or mentally unable to provide biometric identification. 27 (f) Fraud prevention markers incorporated into software which shall be 28 used to operate the hardware component of the biometric technology shall 29 prevent and/or reject the payment by the Medicaid program and alert the 30 service provider at point of service if fraud or potential fraud is 31 identified by the biometric technology system. 32 (g) Provisions shall be included to ensure that Medicaid recipients 33 have access to emergency health services in the case of a biometric 34 technology system malfunction or fraud detection alarm. 35 (h) Evaluation and selection of an identity credentialing system that 36 addresses the requirements of Medicaid beneficiaries and providers shall 37 be based on the following criteria: security, privacy, usability, 38 performance, hygiene, biometric capture and storage requirements, and 39 interoperability. 40 (i) Such program shall be operational within twelve months of program 41 approval and will operate for three years. 42 3. Such request for proposals shall set forth requirements as to the 43 results and goals to be achieved, rather than specific technical methods 44 or systems, to allow consideration of the widest possible choice of 45 available technology. 46 4. Such request for proposals shall require: (a) that the program 47 shall be revenue neutral from inception, whereby any program costs are 48 at least offset by state Medicaid savings, and shall have as a primary 49 goal reduction of Medicaid expenditures through elimination of fraud and 50 abuse; and (b) that the program shall be cost neutral to providers from 51 inception, whereby any provider costs are at least offset by provider 52 savings, and shall have as a primary goal provider savings through 53 increased efficiencies. 54 5. (a) Such request for proposals for the implementation of a program 55 for biometric technology use shall be published on or before JanuaryA. 2830 3 1 fifteenth, two thousand twenty-one, and shall provide that proposals 2 shall be opened on or before March first, two thousand twenty-one. 3 (b) The commissioner shall report to the governor, the temporary pres- 4 ident of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of the 5 senate and assembly health committees on or before March thirtieth, two 6 thousand twenty-one with regard to the progress made in the development 7 of criteria for a program of biometric identification and of the imple- 8 mentation of such program. 9 6. The commissioner shall, upon submission of satisfactory evidence 10 of compliance with the provisions of this title, approve two Medicaid 11 identification and anti-fraud biometric technology pilot programs, one 12 to be located in an upstate hospital and one to be located in a down- 13 state hospital. 14 7. Each hospital will be appropriated three hundred thousand dollars 15 to assist in enabling the Medicaid identification and anti-fraud biome- 16 tric technology pilot program. 17 § 298. Rules and regulations. The commissioner is authorized and 18 directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she may deem 19 necessary or appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this article. 20 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 367-b of the social services law, as 21 added by chapter 639 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows: 22 1. The department, in consultation with the commissioner of health, 23 shall design and implement a statewide medical assistance information 24 and payments system for the purpose of providing individual and aggre- 25 gate data to social services districts to assist them in making basic 26 management decisions, to the department and other state agencies to 27 assist in the administration of the medical assistance program, and to 28 the governor and the legislature as may be necessary to assist in making 29 major administrative and policy decisions affecting such program. Such 30 system shall be designed so as to be capable of the following: 31 a. receiving and processing information relating to the eligibility of 32 each person applying for medical assistance and of issuing a medical 33 assistance identification card, and when available utilizing the biome- 34 tric identification issued by the department of health, conforming to 35 the requirements set forth in the Medicaid identification and anti-fraud 36 biometric technology pilot program established pursuant to article two-C 37 of the public health law to persons determined by a social services 38 official to be eligible for such assistance; 39 b. activating medical assistance identification by requiring an 40 applicant receiving such identification from the department to have it 41 verified at a social services district office in the social services 42 district in which the applicant resides; 43 c. receiving and processing information relating to each qualified 44 provider of medical assistance furnishing care, services or supplies for 45 which claims for payment are made pursuant to this title; 46 [c.] d. receiving and processing, in a form and manner prescribed by 47 the department, all claims for medical care, services and supplies, and 48 making payments for valid claims to providers of medical care, services 49 and supplies on behalf of social services districts; 50 [d.] e. maintaining information necessary to allow the department, 51 consistent with the powers and duties of the department of health, to 52 review the appropriateness, scope and duration of medical care, services 53 and supplies provided to any eligible person pursuant to this chapter; 54 and 55 [e.] f. initiating implementation of such a system for the district 56 comprising the city of New York, in a manner compatible with expansionA. 2830 4 1 of such system to districts other than the district comprising the city 2 of New York. 3 § 3. The sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000), or so much 4 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of 5 health out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to 6 the credit of the Medicaid identification and anti-fraud biometric tech- 7 nology pilot program, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately 8 available, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. 9 Such moneys shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller 10 on vouchers certified or approved by the department of health in the 11 manner prescribed by law. 12 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
