Assembly Bill A2906

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Makes assisted living programs eligible for access funding under the vital access provider program

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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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2019-A2906 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1806
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2826, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10522
2017-2018: A1612, S6319
2021-2022: A1342
2023-2024: A251

2019-A2906 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes assisted living programs eligible for access funding under the vital access provider program.

2019-A2906 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2906
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to Medicaid providers
   eligible for access funding under the vital access provider program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 2826 of the public health law,
 as added by section 27 of part C of chapter 60 of the laws of  2014,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, within funds
 appropriated  and  subject  to  the  availability  of  federal financial
 participation, the  commissioner  may  grant  approval  of  a  temporary
 adjustment  to  the  non-capital  components of rates, or make temporary
 lump-sum Medicaid payments, to eligible general hospitals, skilled nurs-
 ing facilities, clinics [and], home care providers, AND ASSISTED  LIVING
 PROGRAMS,  provided however, that should federal financial participation
 not be available for any eligible provider, then  payments  pursuant  to
 this  subdivision  may  be  made as grants and shall not be deemed to be
 medical assistance payments.
   § 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision (f) of section 2826  of  the  public
 health  law,  as added by section 14 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws
 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) Providers serving rural areas as such term is defined  in  section
 two  thousand  nine hundred fifty-one of this chapter, including but not
 limited to hospitals, residential health care facilities, diagnostic and
 treatment  centers,  ambulatory  surgery  centers  [and],  clinics   AND
 ASSISTED  LIVING  PROGRAMS  shall  be  eligible for enhanced payments or
 reimbursement under a supplemental rate methodology for the  purpose  of
 promoting access and improving the quality of care.
   § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2020.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00088-01-9

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