Assembly Bill A6020A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of transportation management brokers

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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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2023-A6020 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4788
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-h, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9944, S8806

2023-A6020 - Summary

Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation management brokers.

2023-A6020 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6020
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursement of
   transportation costs for certain enrollees under Medicaid
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  4  of
 section  365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part
 LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (vi) [Responsibility] THE BROKER AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL
 NOT HAVE RESPONSIBILITY for transportation services provided or arranged
 for enrollees of managed long term care  plans  issued  certificates  of
 authority  under section forty-four hundred three-f of the public health
 law, [not including] NOR a program designated as a Program of All-Inclu-
 sive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as authorized  by  Federal  Public  law
 1053-33,  subtitle  I  of  title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997[,
 and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate  bene-
 fits  for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries based on a
 demonstration by the plan that inclusion of  transportation  within  the
 benefit  package  will  result in cost efficiencies and quality improve-
 ment, shall be transferred to a transportation  management  broker  that
 has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this paragraph].
 Providers  of  adult  day  health  care  may  elect to, but shall not be
 required to, use the services of the transportation management broker.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall
 be  subject  to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to
 subdivision (a) of section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of  the  laws  of
 2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08103-01-3

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2023-A6020A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4788
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-h, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9944, S8806

2023-A6020A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation management brokers.

2023-A6020A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6020--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on  Ways
   and  Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  the  use  of
   transportation management brokers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  4  of
 section  365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part
 LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (vi) [Responsibility for transportation services provided or  arranged
 for  enrollees  of]  PROVIDERS OF ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE AND managed long
 term care plans issued certificates of authority  under  section  forty-
 four hundred three-f of the public health law[, not including] MAY ELECT
 TO, BUT SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO, USE THE SERVICES OF THE TRANSPORTATION
 MANAGEMENT  BROKER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, a program designated as a Program
 of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as  authorized  by  Federal
 Public law 1053-33, subtitle I of title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of
 1997[, and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate
 benefits  for  dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries based
 on a demonstration by the plan that inclusion of  transportation  within
 the  benefit  package  will  result  in  cost  efficiencies  and quality
 improvement, shall be transferred to a transportation management  broker
 that  has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this para-
 graph. Providers of adult day health care may elect to, but shall not be
 required to, use the services of the transportation  management  broker]
 SHALL  NOT BE REQUIRED TO USE THE SERVICES OF THE TRANSPORTATION MANAGE-
 MENT BROKER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall
 be  subject  to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to
 subdivision (a) of section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of  the  laws  of
 2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith.

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