Senate Bill S8447A

                             
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                                   8447
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2024
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 Introduced  by Sens. HINCHEY, MAY -- 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  medicaid
   reimbursement for treatment in place and transportation to alternative
   health care settings by ambulance services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
 367-y to read as follows:
   §  367-Y.  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR TREATMENT IN PLACE AND TRANSPORTATION TO
 ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE SETTINGS. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF
 LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  ANY  PROVISION  OF  THIS  TITLE  PROVIDING  FOR
 REIMBURSEMENT OF TRANSPORTATION COSTS FOR  AN  AMBULANCE  SERVICE  SHALL
 ALSO  APPLY  WHERE,  INSTEAD  OF  PROVIDING  TRANSPORTATION TO A GENERAL
 HOSPITAL, SUCH AMBULANCE SERVICE:
   (A) ADMINISTERS TREATMENT IN PLACE; AND/OR
   (B) TRANSPORTS AN INDIVIDUAL TO AN ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE SETTING.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL  HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  "ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE SETTING" MEANS A FACILITY OR INSTITUTION
 THAT IS:
   (I) A CRISIS STABILIZATION CENTER OR  CERTIFIED  COMMUNITY  BEHAVIORAL
 HEALTH  CLINIC  OPERATING  PURSUANT  TO ARTICLE THIRTY-SIX OF THE MENTAL
 HYGIENE LAW;
   (II) A FACILITY UNDER SECTION 7.17 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW;
   (III) A FACILITY PROVIDING ADDICTION DISORDER SERVICES  AND/OR  BEHAV-
 IORAL  HEALTH SERVICES, AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED BY SECTION 1.03 OF THE
 MENTAL HYGIENE LAW;
   (IV) A DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
 TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, OR  AN  UPGRADED  DIAGNOSTIC  AND
 TREATMENT  CENTER  DESIGNATED  AS  SUCH  PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-NINE
 HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW;
   (V) A FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER; OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (VI) ENGAGED PRINCIPALLY IN PROVIDING SERVICES BY OR UNDER THE  SUPER-
 VISION  OF  A PHYSICIAN LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF
 THE EDUCATION LAW.
   (B)  "AMBULANCE  SERVICE"  SHALL  HAVE  THE SAME MEANING AS DEFINED BY
 SECTION THREE THOUSAND ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   (C) "GENERAL HOSPITAL" SHALL HAVE  THE  SAME  MEANING  AS  DEFINED  BY
 SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   (D) "TREATMENT IN PLACE" MEANS THE ADMINISTRATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL
 SERVICES,  AS DEFINED BY SECTION THREE THOUSAND ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
 LAW, BY AN EMPLOYEE OR VOLUNTEER OF AN AMBULANCE SERVICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.