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Senate Bill S3262
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2015-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A2332
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§4406-c & 2801-a, Pub Health L; amd §3224-a, Ins L; amd §§1676 & 1680, Pub Auth L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014:
S5331, A7530
2017-2018: A3312
2019-2020: A7180
2021-2022: A1137
2023-2024: A1331
2015-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires contracts with home care service providers to provide sufficient resources to ensure compensation to a qualified workforce providing high quality care; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care facilities to finance health care reform efforts.
2015-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3262 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, the insurance law and the public authorities law, in relation to payments to home care services providers and authorizing the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care to finance health care reform efforts PURPOSE: This bill will address payment challenges for home care during the transition from fee for service to managed care by ensuring managed care contracts support wage parity, providing for prompt payments, authorizing the Department of Health and the Dormitory Authority to establish a program offering credit enhancement to allow access to capital for home care providers that are unable to borrow money from conventional lenders to invest in necessary health reform initiatives. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section one adds a new § 4406-c(9) to the PHL to ensure that funds made available to licensed home care service programs, certified home health agencies, long term home health care programs and consumer directed personal assistance services through contracts with health
2015-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3262 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 4, 2015 ___________ 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, the insurance law and the public authorities law, in relation to payments to home care services provid- ers and authorizing the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care to finance health care reform efforts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4406-c of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows: 9. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW, CONTRACTS WITH CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AGENCIES, LONG TERM HOME HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS, LICENSED HOME CARE SERVICES PROGRAMS OR FISCAL INTERMEDIARIES OPERATING PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE-F OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW TO PROVIDE HOME CARE AIDE SERVICES AS DEFINED IN SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED FOURTEEN-C OF THIS CHAPTER, OR CONSUMER DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES AS AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE-F OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW SHALL AT A MINIMUM ENSURE THAT THE RESOURCES MADE AVAILABLE BY SUCH CONTRACTS SHALL SUPPORT COMPEN- SATION FOR PERSONS PROVIDING SUCH HOME CARE AIDE SERVICES AND CONSUMER DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO ENSURE THE RETENTION OF A QUAL- IFIED WORKFORCE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY CARE TO RECIPIENTS OF SUCH SERVICES CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUCH SECTION. S 2. Subsection (a) of section 3224-a of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 237 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: (a) Except in a case where the obligation of an insurer or an organ- ization or corporation licensed or certified pursuant to article forty- three or forty-seven of this chapter or article forty-four of the public health law to pay a claim submitted by a policyholder or person covered under such policy ("covered person") or make a payment to a health care EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03537-01-5
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