Bill Text: NY S04468 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the reimbursement of local services provided to persons with a disability; provides for retroactive reimbursement if local services were furnished prior to approval.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-26 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04468 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04468-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4468--A
            Cal. No. 810

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 5, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. MANNION, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Disabilities  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement of
          certain programs and services for persons with a disability

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

     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  43.13 to read as follows:
     3  § 43.13 Reimbursement of certain programs and services for persons  with
     4            a disability.
     5    If  a  person  who qualifies for and has entered into a program and/or
     6  received a service furnished by a local  service  provider  pursuant  to
     7  subdivision  (a)  of  section  13.15 of this chapter subsequently enters
     8  into a different program and/or receives a  different  service  not  yet
     9  approved  by  the  commissioner,  provided  such  approval is ultimately
    10  granted, the local service provider  shall  be  reimbursed,  after  such
    11  services  have  been  rendered  and  approved,  the cost of such program
    12  and/or service as if it had been approved prior to such person's  admis-
    13  sion into such program or receipt of such service. If a service is ulti-
    14  mately  not  approved  and  reimbursement  has  already  occurred,  such
    15  reimbursement shall be returned to the office for people  with  develop-
    16  mental  disabilities  within  sixty days of notice of such denial.  This
    17  section shall apply to any services rendered on and after one year prior
    18  to the effective date of this section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02433-02-1