Bill Text: NY A06510 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to authorize additional reimbursement to providers of health and dental care primarily serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for uncompensated time, use of staff, and services that are necessary to support treatment of a patient as a result of the patient's physical, intellectual, or developmental disability.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-5)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A06510 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06510-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6510

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 12, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to directing the
          commissioner  of  health  to  authorize  additional  reimbursement  to
          providers of health and dental care primarily serving individuals with
          intellectual and developmental disabilities for certain services

          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-p to read as follows:
     3    § 365-p. Additional reimbursement. Notwithstanding any other provision
     4  of law, the commissioner of health shall authorize additional reimburse-
     5  ment  to  providers of health and dental care primarily serving individ-
     6  uals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for  uncompensated
     7  time, use of staff, and services that are necessary to support treatment
     8  of  a  patient  as  a result of the patient's physical, intellectual, or
     9  developmental disability.  Such additional reimbursement shall be suffi-
    10  cient to cover the actual  cost  of  providing  such  necessary  support
    11  services associated with treatment.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10740-01-3