Bill Text: NY S02561 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care by 15 million dollars for period 7/1/20 to 3/31/21, and by 20 million dollars annually thereafter for each period from April 1 to March 31.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02561 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02561-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2561
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend  the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  medicaid
          reimbursement of private duty nursing services and care
          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-o to read as follows:
     3    §  365-o.  Reimbursement  of  private  duty nursing services and care.
     4  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, rates  of  payment
     5  for  care  and  services  furnished  by  a private duty nurse that would
     6  otherwise qualify for reimbursement pursuant  to  this  title  shall  be
     7  increased  by  an  amount  not  to exceed fifteen million dollars in the
     8  aggregate for the period July first, two thousand twenty to March  thir-
     9  ty-first,  two  thousand twenty-one, and twenty million dollars annually
    10  thereafter for each period of April first to March thirty-first.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05454-01-9
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