Bill Text: NY S07372 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to publish certain information relating to home care services usage on the department's website on a quarterly basis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - PRINT NUMBER 7372B [S07372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07372-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7372--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 10, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  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 committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reporting of  home
          care service usage

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  3614-g to read as follows:
     3    § 3614-g. Reporting of home care service usage. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this  section,  the  term  "managed care plan" means a managed care plan
     5  operating  under  section  three  hundred  sixty-four-j  of  the  social
     6  services  law  or  article forty-four of this chapter and providing home
     7  care services in the medical assistance program.
     8    2. On a quarterly basis, the department shall publish on its  website,
     9  in a searchable and accessible format, the following information:
    10    (a)  the  number of individuals receiving home care services listed by
    11  type of home care service; county of recipient; and services  authorized
    12  by  the  local  department  of  social services and by each managed care
    13  plan;
    14    (b) the number of individuals receiving home care services by specific
    15  public third-party payors;
    16    (c) the number of individuals who have had a permanent  transfer  from
    17  home care services to a nursing home or assisted living facility; and
    18    (d)  aggregated information about service usage, including the average
    19  number of hours authorized across all recipients of home  care  services
    20  during  the  previous  reporting  period  by type of service, payor, and
    21  county.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11702-06-2
        S. 7372--B                          2

     1    3. Nothing in this section shall require or permit the  disclosure  of
     2  any  individual  identifying  information  by  the department, except as
     3  otherwise authorized by law.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.