Bill Text: NY S02238 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to requiring specific reserved bed days at New York State Veterans' Homes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-02 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6551B [S02238 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02238-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2238--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  BROOKS, ADDABBO, BIAGGI, BORRELLO, BOYLE, COMRIE,
          GAUGHRAN, HARCKHAM, KAMINSKY, KAPLAN,  MATTERA,  MAY,  ORTT,  PALUMBO,
          REICHLIN-MELNICK,  RITCHIE,  SALAZAR,  SERRANO,  STEC, THOMAS, WEIK --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the  Committee  on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring specific
          reserved bed days at the New York State Veterans' Homes

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2808 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 25-a to read as follows:
     3    25-a. Reserved bed days for state veterans' homes. (a) For purposes of
     4  this subdivision, a "reserved bed day" is a day for which the state pays
     5  New  York  State  Veterans' Home at Oxford, the New York State Veterans'
     6  Home at St. Albans, the New York State Veterans' Home  at  Batavia,  the
     7  New  York  State  Veterans'  Home  at  Montrose or the Long Island State
     8  Veterans' Home to reserve a  bed  for  a  person  eligible  for  medical
     9  assistance  pursuant  to  title  eleven  of  article  five of the social
    10  services law while he or she is temporarily hospitalized.
    11    (b) (i) Payments for reserved bed days shall be made at fifty  percent
    12  of  the  Medicaid  rate  otherwise  payable to the facility for services
    13  provided on behalf of the person.
    14    (ii) Payment to a facility for reserved bed days provided on behalf of
    15  the person for temporary hospitalizations may not exceed  fourteen  days
    16  in any twelve-month period.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03668-05-2

        S. 2238--B                          2

     1    (iii)  The  person must have resided in the applicable State Veterans'
     2  home for at least thirty days since the  date  of  his  or  her  initial
     3  admission.
     4    (iv)  Unless medically contraindicated, the applicable State Veterans'
     5  home shall reserve the same bed and  room  the  person  occupied  before
     6  being hospitalized or placed on a therapeutic leave of absence.
     7    (v)  Reserved  bed  days  under  this  subdivision  are in addition to
     8  reserve bed days for therapeutic  leave  of  absence  under  subdivision
     9  twenty-five of this section.
    10    (vi)  This  subdivision  shall  apply  subject  to the availability of
    11  federal financial participation.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have  become  a  law.  Effective  immediately the commissioner of health
    14  shall make regulations and take other actions  reasonably  necessary  to
    15  implement this act on that date.
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