Bill Text: NY S08447 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for medicaid reimbursement for emergency medical services when treatment in place is administered and/or when transportation is provided to alternative health care settings instead of a general hospital.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S08447 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08447-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8447--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sens. HINCHEY, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services  law,  in relation to medicaid
          reimbursement for treatment in place and transportation to alternative
          health care settings by emergency medical services

          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  367-y to read as follows:
     3    § 367-y. Reimbursement for treatment in place  and  transportation  to
     4  alternative  health  care  settings. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of
     5  law  to  the  contrary,  any  provision  of  this  title  providing  for
     6  reimbursement  of  transportation  costs  for the provision of emergency
     7  medical services or a combination of such services for the  purposes  of
     8  providing  prehospital  emergency medical treatment or transporting sick
     9  or injured persons shall also apply where, instead of  providing  trans-
    10  portation to a general hospital, such emergency medical services:
    11    (a) Administers treatment in place; and/or
    12    (b)  Transports  an  individual  to an alternative health care setting
    13  including, but not limited to, mental health crisis centers  and  crisis
    14  stabilization  centers,  substance abuse disorder centers, urgent cares,
    15  federally qualified health centers, and doctors offices.
    16    2. For the purposes of this section, the following  terms  shall  have
    17  the following meanings:
    18    (a)  "Alternative health care setting" means a facility or institution
    19  that is a hospital, as defined by section twenty-eight  hundred  one  of
    20  the  public  health  law,  except that for the purposes of this section,
    21  such term shall not include a general hospital.
    22    (b) "Emergency medical service" shall have the same meaning as defined
    23  by section three thousand one of the public health law.
    24    (c) "General hospital" shall have  the  same  meaning  as  defined  by
    25  section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (d) "Treatment in place" means the administration of emergency medical
     2  services,  as defined by section three thousand one of the public health
     3  law, by an employee or volunteer of an ambulance service or an emergency
     4  medical service.
     5    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     6  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.