Bill Text: NY A09841 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires home health care professionals to use the adverse childhood experience questionnaire in assessing the patient's health risks and makes Medicaid reimbursement of primary care providers contingent upon such use; requires the department of social services to report to the senate and assembly health committees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-15 - referred to health [A09841 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09841-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9841
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 15, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          patient's  health  home  to use the adverse childhood experience ques-
          tionnaire in assessing the patient's health risks and to making  Medi-
          caid  reimbursement  of primary care providers contingent upon the use
          of the adverse childhood experience questionnaire; and to require  the
          commissioner  of  health  to submit reports to the senate and assembly
          health committees
          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 two new
     2  sections 365-l-1 and 365-l-2 to read as follows:
     3    § 365-l-1. Standards for provision of health home services to Medicaid
     4  enrollees with chronic conditions. Consistent with federal law to ensure
     5  federal financial participation, a health care professional providing  a
     6  patient's health home shall:
     7    1.  provide  comprehensive prevention and disease screening for his or
     8  her patients and managing his or her  patients'  chronic  conditions  by
     9  coordinating care;
    10    2.  enable  patients  to  have  access  to personal health information
    11  through a secure medium, such as through the internet,  consistent  with
    12  federal health information technology standards;
    13    3.  collaborate with the community health teams, including by develop-
    14  ing and implementing a comprehensive plan for participating patients;
    15    4. utilize the adverse childhood experience questionnaire in assessing
    16  a patent's health and health risks;
    17    5. ensure access to a patent's medical records by the community health
    18  team members in a manner compliant with the Health Insurance Portability
    19  and Accountability Act, 12 V.S.A. § 1612, and 21 V.S.A. § 516; and
    20    6. meet regularly with the community health team to ensure integration
    21  of a participating patient's care.
    22    § 365-l-2. Adverse childhood experience questionnaire.  1.  Reimburse-
    23  ment for primary care provided to a Medicaid patient shall be contingent
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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