NY State Senate Bill S2948

senate Bill S2948

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of health to establish an opioid treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 09, 2014	referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 03, 2014	ordered to third reading cal.1108
Jun 02, 2014	reported and committed to rules
May 20, 2014	reported and committed to finance
Jan 08, 2014	referred to health returned to senate died in assembly
Jun 12, 2013	referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 11, 2013	ordered to third reading cal.1248 committee discharged and committed to rules
May 07, 2013	reported and committed to finance
Jan 25, 2013	referred to health

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S2948 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10110
Current Committee:: Assembly Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3309-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:: S7326

S2948 - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish an opioid addiction treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program.

S2948 - Sponsor Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2948

TITLE  OF  BILL:   An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
establishing an opioid addiction treatment and hospital diversion demon-
stration program

PURPOSE:   Directs the commissioner of health  to  establish  an  opioid
addiction treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section  1  adds  a new Public Health Law 3309-b to establish the Opioid
Addiction Treatment and Hospital Diversion Demonstration Program.  Under
the program the commissioner in consultation with the Office of Alcohol-
ism and Substance Abuse Services, is authorized to established up to six
demonstrations with, at minimum, one located in each  of  the  following
locations;  Western  New York, Central New York, State Island, Brooklyn,
and Long Island. Additionally, this section requires the commissioner to
report within 2 years on the effectiveness of the demonstration  program
and recommendations regarding the expansion of the program.

Section 2 provides the act take effect immediately.

JUSTIFICATION:    The  Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
recently reported that in one year, 27,000 Americans  died  of  uninten-
tional drug overdoses - that is one death every 19 minutes. Further, the

CDC  reported  that  for  every  unintentional overdose death related to
opioids, nine persons are admitted for substance abuse treatment and  35
individuals  visit  emergency  departments.  According to a study in the
journal Psychiatric Services,  substance  abuse  disorders  are  costing
states  millions  of dollars in Medicaid expenses. This study found that
in six states, the Medicaid programs spent over  $200  million  more  on
beneficiaries with substance abuse disorders than those without.

Presumably, in an effort to cut these costs, both the state and national
government have been supportive of the concept of making detox an outpa-
tient,  rather  than  inpatient service. Withdrawal from opioid drugs is
generally not life threatening and can be readily managed in less inten-
sive and costly environments. However, despite the support of more effi-
cient, cost saving  alternatives,  there  is  a  shortage  of  community
options  for  individuals  seeking assistance with opioid addiction. The
lack of available treatment facilities was raised several times  at  the
recent  roundtables  on  the  prescription drug abuse crisis held by the
Senate Standing Committee on Health and the Senate  Standing,  Committee
on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.

This  demonstration  program  aims  to address these issues by providing
alternative outpatient short term treatment,  avoiding  the  unnecessary
emergency  room  costs, and studying the effectiveness of this treatment
model. The demonstration program established  herein  is  modeled  after
programs  such  as the Rose House Hospital Diversion Program, located in

Poughkeepsie, Voices of the Health,serving Washington and Warren County,
and the Essex County Crisis Alternatives Program - which are all  deemed
to  be  successful  programs  providing, mental health respite services.
While  there  will be costs to the state associated with the creation of
this demonstration, such costs are expected to  be  offset  by  Medicaid
savings resulting from the decrease in emergency room services.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:  S.7326 of 2012 Passed Senate

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:  The costs of the program are expected to be offset
by Medicaid savings.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.

S2948 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2948

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 25, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. HANNON, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to establishing an
  opioid  addiction  treatment  and  hospital  diversion   demonstration
  program

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

  Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
3309-b to read as follows:
  S  3309-B.  OPIOID  ADDICTION  TREATMENT AND HOSPITAL DIVERSION DEMON-
STRATION PROGRAM. 1. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH  THE  OFFICE
OF  ALCOHOLISM  AND  SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, SHALL, WITHIN THE AMOUNTS
APPROPRIATED THEREFOR,  ESTABLISH  AN  OPIOID  ADDICTION  TREATMENT  AND
HOSPITAL  DIVERSION  DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE A
NEW MODEL OF DETOXIFICATION AND TRANSITIONAL  SERVICES  FOR  INDIVIDUALS
SEEKING  TO  RECOVER FROM OPIOID ADDICTION, THEREBY REDUCING RELIANCE ON
EMERGENCY ROOM SERVICES. THE PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE TREATMENT  OF
PRESCRIPTION  PAIN  MEDICATION ADDICTION ON AN OUTPATIENT OR NON-MEDICAL
RESIDENTIAL SHORT-TERM STAY BASIS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  ESTABLISH  UP
TO  SIX  DEMONSTRATIONS  THROUGHOUT  THE  STATE, AND AT MINIMUM A DEMON-
STRATION SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN EACH OF THE  FOLLOWING  AREAS:  WESTERN
NEW YORK, CENTRAL NEW YORK, STATEN ISLAND, BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND.
  2.  NOT LATER THAN TWO YEARS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION,
THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT  OF
THE  SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE STAND-
ING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND THE CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY  HEALTH  COMMITTEE
WITH  A WRITTEN EVALUATION OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. SUCH EVALUATION
SHALL ADDRESS THE OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS TREATMENT  MODEL  AS  IT
RELATES  TO  PATIENTS,  THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY, HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
AND HEALTH CARE PAYORS, AND SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE  LIMITED  TO,  THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAM IN PROVIDING ACCESS TO SERVICES, THE IMPACT
OF  THESE SERVICES, THE ASSOCIATED COSTS SAVINGS, AND WHETHER THE EXPAN-
SION OF THIS OR SIMILAR MODELS ARE RECOMMENDED.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02651-01-3

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