Bill Text: NY S07810 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the program of health care quality innovation and improvement through home care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-12 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07810 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07810-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7810
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 12, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to quality innovation
          and improvement through home care
          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  3623 to read as follows:
     3    § 3623. Program for quality innovation and  improvement  through  home
     4  care. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and
     5  subject  to appropriated amounts, the commissioner, upon the approval of
     6  the director of the budget, shall provide grants  directly,  or  in  the
     7  form  of  supplemental  rate  payments,  for the purpose of supporting a
     8  program of health care quality innovation and improvement  through  home
     9  care.
    10    Eligible  entities  for  such  payments  shall include: certified home
    11  health agencies; long term home health care programs; licensed home care
    12  services agencies; managed long term care plans under section forty-four
    13  hundred three-f of this chapter for  initiatives  with  contracted  home
    14  care  agencies;  and  managed  care  plans  under  section three hundred
    15  sixty-four-j of the social services law for initiatives with  contracted
    16  home care agencies.
    17    2. Such program shall include, but not limited to:
    18    (a)  addressing  significant  public health problems and goals through
    19  home care, including falls prevention, health care disparities, septice-
    20  mia early identification and intervention, cardiovascular health,  pres-
    21  sure ulcer prevention, and other;
    22    (b) advances in care management and care transitions through home care
    23  partnership  with hospitals, physicians, health plans, behavioral health
    24  providers, nursing homes and/or other sectors, as well  as  for  coordi-
    25  nation  of primary, chronic and behavioral health care service planning,
    26  delivery and care management;
    27    (c) implementation of comprehensive quality measurement  and  improve-
    28  ment  tools  in home care, including, but not limited to the integration
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15466-01-6
        S. 7810                             2
     1  of these tools into home care electronic records and reporting  systems,
     2  and  associated  adaptation  of  software and connectivity to analytical
     3  systems; such tools shall promote and facilitate  comprehensive  quality
     4  monitoring,  improvement  and  innovation,  continuous  self-audit,  and
     5  priority benchmarking and alignment and of home care with managed  care,
     6  hospitals, primary care and integrated care models;
     7    (d)  home  care  agency  staff  training in quality and specialty care
     8  practice and/or care management techniques;
     9    (e) technology-based approaches to enhance patient care;
    10    (f) population health improvement through population  studies,  agency
    11  service  analytics,  staff training in population care coordination, and
    12  other, conducted by home care agencies;
    13    (g) increased incorporation of evidenced based care practices  through
    14  adoption and use of clinical guidelines, clinical pathways, and/or other
    15  best practice, by home care agencies; and/or
    16    (h)  other  initiatives  to promote improved patient outcomes, patient
    17  satisfaction, service coordination or access through home care,  as  the
    18  commissioner may approve.
    19    3. The commissioner, in consultation with representatives of home care
    20  providers,  managed care plans and statewide associations representative
    21  of such providers and plans, shall establish a process for provider  and
    22  managed  care  plan  application  project  scoring,  and for approval of
    23  payments under this  section.  If  federal  financial  participation  is
    24  unavailable,  then the non-federal share of awards made pursuant to this
    25  subdivision may be made as state grants.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.