Bill Text: NY A06056 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows physician assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of Medicaid managed care plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-03 - substituted by s5956a [A06056 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06056-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6056

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 5, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing  physi-
          cian assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of
          Medicaid managed care plans

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (f) of subdivision 1 of  section  364-j  of  the
     2  social  services  law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of 1996, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (f) "Primary care practitioner".  A physician, physician assistant, or
     5  nurse practitioner providing primary  care  to  and  management  of  the
     6  medical  and  health  care services of a participant served by a managed
     7  care provider.
     8    § 2.  Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  4  of  section
     9  364-j  of the social services law, as amended by section 14 of part C of
    10  chapter 58 of the laws of 2004,  is amended to read as follows:
    11    (i) a managed care provider shall arrange for access to and enrollment
    12  of primary care practitioners and other medical services providers. Each
    13  managed  care  provider  shall  possess  the  expertise  and  sufficient
    14  resources to assure the delivery of quality medical care to participants
    15  in  an  appropriate and timely manner and may include physicians, physi-
    16  cian assistants, nurse practitioners, county health departments, provid-
    17  ers of comprehensive health service plans licensed pursuant  to  article
    18  forty-four  of  the  public health law, and hospitals and diagnostic and
    19  treatment centers licensed  pursuant  to  article  twenty-eight  of  the
    20  public  health law or otherwise authorized by law to offer comprehensive
    21  health services or facilities licensed  pursuant  to  articles  sixteen,
    22  thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
    23    §  3.   This act shall become effective immediately; provided however,
    24  that the amendments to section 364-j of the social services law made  by
    25  sections  one  and  two  of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
    26  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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