Senate Bill S3672

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Changes references to private duty nursing services to specialized nursing services

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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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2011-S3672 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3614, Pub Health L; amd §§365-a, 365-f, 367-p & 367-r, Soc Serv L

2011-S3672 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes references to private duty nursing services to specialized nursing services.

2011-S3672 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S3672 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3672

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 1, 2011
                               ___________

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 and the social  services  law,  in
  relation to specialized nursing services

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 11  of  section  3614  of  the
public health law, as added by section 5 of part C of chapter 109 of the
laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  (c) Such rate adjustments shall be in the form of a uniform percentage
add-on  to  the  rates,  as  determined  by the department, based on the
proportion of the total allocated adjustment dollars, as  determined  in
paragraph  (b)  of  this subdivision, to the total medicaid expenditures
for services provided for certified home health agencies, long-term home
health  care  programs,  AIDS  nursing,  personal  care  assistants  and
[private  duty]  SPECIALIZED  nurses  services  in local social services
districts which do not  include  a  city  with  a  population  over  one
million.
  S  2.  Paragraphs (a) and (1) of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the
social services law, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 47 of the  laws
of  1996 and paragraph (1) as amended by chapter 81 of the laws of 1995,
are amended to read as follows:
  (a) services of qualified physicians, dentists, nurses,  and  [private
duty]  SPECIALIZED  nursing  services  shall  be  further subject to the
provisions of [section three hundred  sixty-seven-o  of]  this  chapter,
optometrists, and other related professional personnel;
  (l)  care  and  services  of podiatrists which care and services shall
only be provided upon referral by a  physician,  nurse  practitioner  or
certified  nurse  midwife  in  accordance  with the program of early and
periodic screening and diagnosis  established  pursuant  to  subdivision
three  of  this  section or to persons eligible for benefits under title

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09768-01-1
              

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