Bill Text: NY A06228 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Removes the requirement that federal participation must be provided for free-standing mental health clinics to be paid state funding owed to them for uncompensated care rendered.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A06228 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06228-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6228 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, RODRIGUEZ, BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to funding for free- standing mental health clinics The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 2807-p of the public health law, 2 as added by section 103 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 10. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section or 5 any other contrary provision of law, the commissioner is authorized to 6 seek a waiver from the federal department of health and human services 7 pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social securi- 8 ty act, or such other federal law provision as may be deemed appropri- 9 ate, seeking federal financial participation in payments made pursuant 10 to this section, in which case the state funding made available pursuant 11 to this section shall be utilized as the non-federal share of such 12 payments. To the extent as may be required, payments made pursuant to 13 this section and in accordance with this subdivision, may be deemed to 14 be disproportionate share hospital payments in accordance with the 15 provisions of the federal social security act. 16 (b) [If federal financial participation in payments made pursuant to17this section are made available in accordance with the provisions of18this subdivision, free-standing] Free-standing clinics licensed solely 19 pursuant to article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law shall also be 20 deemed eligible for participation in such payments to the same degree 21 and in accordance with the same distribution methodology otherwise 22 provided in this section, provided, however, that only those units of 23 service provided by such free-standing clinics that constitute medical 24 services that are otherwise eligible for consideration for Medicaid 25 payments shall be reflected in distributions made pursuant to this EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02351-01-9A. 6228 2 1 section, and further provided, however, that the commissioner may, in 2 consultation with the commissioner of the office of mental health, 3 require such clinics, as a condition of receiving such distributions, to 4 provide reports and data to the department as the commissioner deems 5 necessary to adequately implement the provisions of this subdivision 6 with regard to such clinics. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.