Bill Text: NY A03415 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-17)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A03415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03415-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3415
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing, in
          certain cases, the provision of in-home private duty nursing  services
          to a recipient of medical assistance by a relative who is a registered
          professional nurse
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  365-o to read as follows:
     3    §  365-o.  Provision  of  in-home private duty nursing services by the
     4  relative of a recipient. Upon application or request to the commissioner
     5  by a recipient of medical assistance, or his or  her  representative  or
     6  guardian,  who  has  been  approved for the provision of in-home private
     7  duty nursing, the commissioner  may  authorize  the  provision  of  such
     8  private  duty nursing by an adult relative of such recipient, other than
     9  a spouse of the recipient,  who  is  a  registered  professional  nurse.
    10  Reimbursement  for  private nursing services provided in accordance with
    11  this section shall be at  the  rate  paid  for  the  provision  of  such
    12  services by a licensed practical nurse.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05205-01-9