Assembly Actions -
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Feb 06, 2024 |
reported and committed to finance |
Jan 03, 2024 |
referred to health |
May 09, 2023 |
reported and committed to finance |
Feb 14, 2023 |
referred to health |
Senate Bill S4788
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 33rd Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) 37th Senate District
2023-S4788 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Finance
- Law Section:
- Social Services Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §365-h, Soc Serv L
- Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
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S8806
2023-S4788 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4788 SPONSOR: RIVERA TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursement of transportation costs for certain enrollees under Medicaid PURPOSE: Provides reimbursement of certain transportation costs under Medicaid. SUMMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends subparagraph (vi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law as it relates to the reimburse- ment of transportation cost for medicaid enrollees. This section provides language to remove responsibility for transportation services from the broker. Section 2 provides the effective date.
2023-S4788 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4788 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 14, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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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