Bill Text: NY A03261 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the medicaid outreach and enrollment program to help identify those medicare enrollees who are eligible for medicaid services but who are not participating, through outreach initiatives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to aging [A03261 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03261-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3261
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, RIVERA, COLTON, ARROYO, PERRY -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Aging
        AN  ACT  in relation to increasing access to medicines for needy seniors
          through the outreach to and enrollment of eligible Medicare  benefici-
          aries in the Medicaid program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "medicaid
     2  outreach and enrollment for qualifying medicare beneficiaries program".
     3    §  2.  Legislative  findings  and  intent.  The  legislature finds and
     4  declares that almost thirty percent of medicare enrollees have no cover-
     5  age for pharmaceuticals. Of that number nearly twenty-five  percent  are
     6  living  below  the federal poverty level. Under the medicaid program the
     7  state of New York provides pharmaceutical coverage for qualifying  indi-
     8  viduals.  There are many medicare beneficiaries in New York that qualify
     9  for  medicaid  services  but  are  not enrolled and participating in the
    10  program.  The legislature further finds that the medicaid  outreach  and
    11  enrollment  for  qualifying medicare beneficiaries program will identify
    12  those medicare enrollees who are eligible for medicaid services, but are
    13  not participating, through outreach initiatives.
    14    § 3. Medicaid outreach and enrollment program. There is hereby  estab-
    15  lished  the  medicaid  outreach and enrollment program ("program").  The
    16  program shall be administered by the department of health.  The  depart-
    17  ment  of  health  shall implement and administer the program through the
    18  development of outreach initiatives to identify medicaid-eligible  medi-
    19  care beneficiaries who are not participating in the medicaid program and
    20  to promote and encourage enrollment of these eligible individuals in the
    21  medicaid program.  Initiatives may include, but shall not be limited to,
    22  mailings,   advertisements,  public  service  announcements,  literature
    23  dissemination and community outreach.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07458-01-9
        A. 3261                             2
     1    § 4. The department of health shall report to the  legislature  on  an
     2  annual  basis  commencing  one  year  after  the  implementation  of the
     3  provisions of the program. The report shall include the baseline  number
     4  of medicare beneficiaries who were medicaid eligible at the beginning of
     5  the  previous  year;  the  number of medicaid-eligible beneficiaries who
     6  were medicare beneficiaries who  were  targeted  via  the  program;  the
     7  number of medicaid-eligible medicare beneficiaries who enrolled in medi-
     8  caid  in a given year and any information of enrollment via the program;
     9  a description of the outreach initiatives utilized by the program; and a
    10  detailed accounting of how funding was utilized.
    11    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.