Assembly Bill A5947

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to managed long term care plans

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A5947 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4403-f, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A3781
2015-2016: A7354, A414
2019-2020: A2406, A2797
2021-2022: A6034

2017-A5947 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prohibiting ownership or control of managed long term care plans by health maintenance organizations or insurers.

2017-A5947 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5947
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to managed long term
   care plans not being controlled or owned by for-profit health  mainte-
   nance organizations or insurers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of  section  4403-f  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  added  by  chapter 659 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (b) "Eligible applicant" means an entity controlled or wholly owned by
 one or more of the following: a hospital as defined in  subdivision  one
 of  section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter; a home care agency
 licensed or certified pursuant to article thirty-six  of  this  chapter;
 [an] A NOT-FOR-PROFIT entity that has received a certificate of authori-
 ty  pursuant  to  sections  forty-four hundred three, forty-four hundred
 three-a or AN INTEGRATED DELIVERY SYSTEM THAT HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE
 OF AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO SECTION  forty-four  hundred  eight-a  of  this
 article  (as  added  by  chapter  six hundred thirty-nine of the laws of
 nineteen hundred ninety-six), or  a  NOT-FOR-PROFIT  health  maintenance
 organization  authorized under article forty-three of the insurance law;
 or a not-for-profit organization which has a  history  of  providing  or
 coordinating  health  care  services  and long term care services to the
 elderly and  disabled;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  AN  ENTITY  OWNED  OR
 CONTROLLED  BY  AN  ENTITY  THAT HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY
 PURSUANT TO SECTION  FORTY-FOUR  HUNDRED  THREE  OR  FORTY-FOUR  HUNDRED
 THREE-A  OF  THIS  ARTICLE  AND  HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY
 UNDER THIS SECTION PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF  THE  CHAPTER  OF  THE
 LAWS  OF  TWO  THOUSAND  SEVENTEEN WHICH AMENDED THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE
 DEEMED TO BE AN ELIGIBLE APPLICANT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09390-01-7

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