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Senate Bill S5254

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to home care worker wage parity

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2011-S5254 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3614-c, Pub Health L

2011-S5254 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to home care worker wage parity.

2011-S5254 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S5254 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5254

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 3, 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, in relation to home  care  worker
  wage parity

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3614-c of the public  health  law,
as  added  by section 33 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, is
amended to read as follows:
  7. If a certified home health agency or long  term  home  health  care
program elects to provide home care aide services through contracts with
licensed  home  care  services  agencies or through other third parties,
provided that the episode of care on which the home care aide  works  is
covered under the terms of this section, the certified home health agen-
cy,  long  term home health care program, or managed care plan must PASS
THROUGH THE AMOUNT OF ANY SERVICE UNIT REIMBURSED LESS  ANY  ADMINISTRA-
TIVE EXPENSE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY THE NEW YORK STATE MEDICAL ASSIST-
ANCE PROGRAM TO THE LICENSED HOME CARE SERVICES AGENCY AND MUST obtain a
written  certification  from  the  licensed home care services agency or
other third party, on forms prepared by the department  in  consultation
with  the  department  of labor, which attests to the licensed home care
services agency's or other third party's compliance with  the  terms  of
this section. Such certifications shall also obligate the certified home
health  agency, long term home health care program, or managed care plan
to obtain, on no less than a quarterly basis, all information  from  the
licensed  home  care services agency or other third parties necessary to
verify compliance with the terms of this section.   Such  certifications
and  the information exchanged pursuant to them shall be retained by all
certified home health agencies, long term home health care programs,  or
managed  care  plans,  and  all licensed home care services agencies, or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11380-01-1

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