Senate Bill S7663

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to funding for free-standing mental health clinics

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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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2015-S7663 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10498
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807-p, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S694, A7304
2019-2020: A6228

2015-S7663 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the requirement that federal participation must be provided for free-standing mental health clinics to be paid state funding owed to them for uncompensated care rendered.

2015-S7663 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7663 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7663

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 12, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 funding for  free-
  standing mental health clinics

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 2807-p of the public health  law,
as  added by section 103 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, is
amended to read as follows:
  10. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section  or
any  other  contrary provision of law, the commissioner is authorized to
seek a waiver from the federal department of health and  human  services
pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social securi-
ty  act,  or such other federal law provision as may be deemed appropri-
ate, seeking federal financial participation in payments  made  pursuant
to this section, in which case the state funding made available pursuant
to  this  section  shall  be  utilized  as the non-federal share of such
payments. To the extent as may be required, payments  made  pursuant  to
this  section  and in accordance with this subdivision, may be deemed to
be disproportionate share  hospital  payments  in  accordance  with  the
provisions of the federal social security act.
  (b)  [If  federal financial participation in payments made pursuant to
this section are made available in accordance  with  the  provisions  of
this  subdivision,  free-standing] FREE-STANDING clinics licensed solely
pursuant to article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law shall  also  be
deemed  eligible  for  participation in such payments to the same degree
and in accordance  with  the  same  distribution  methodology  otherwise
provided  in  this  section, provided, however, that only those units of
service provided by such free-standing clinics that  constitute  medical
services  that  are  otherwise  eligible  for consideration for Medicaid
payments shall be reflected  in  distributions  made  pursuant  to  this
section,  and  further  provided, however, that the commissioner may, in
consultation with the commissioner  of  the  office  of  mental  health,
require such clinics, as a condition of receiving such distributions, to

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

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