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Senate Bill S8549

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to setting minimum reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services

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2023-S8549 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9714
Current Committee:
Senate Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S6886, A3364

2023-S8549 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Sets the reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services to be a rate that is not less than the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant to the medical assistance program under title eleven of article five of the social services law.

2023-S8549 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8549 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8549
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the  insurance  law,  in  relation  to  setting  minimum
   reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (I) of  paragraph  35  of  subsection  (i)  of
 section  3216  of the insurance law is amended by adding a new item (vi)
 to read as follows:
   (VI) REIMBURSEMENT FOR COVERED SERVICES PROVIDED BY  A  MOBILE  CRISIS
 INTERVENTION  SERVICES PROVIDER SHALL BE AT A RATE THAT IS NOT LESS THAN
 THE RATE THAT WOULD BE PAID FOR SUCH SERVICES PURSUANT  TO  THE  MEDICAL
 ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  UNDER  TITLE  ELEVEN  OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW.
   § 2. Subparagraph (I) of paragraph 5 of subsection (l) of section 3221
 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new item  (vi)  to  read  as
 follows:
   (VI)  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR  COVERED SERVICES PROVIDED BY A MOBILE CRISIS
 INTERVENTION SERVICES PROVIDER SHALL BE AT A RATE THAT IS NOT LESS  THAN
 THE  RATE  THAT  WOULD BE PAID FOR SUCH SERVICES PURSUANT TO THE MEDICAL
 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM UNDER TITLE ELEVEN OF  ARTICLE  FIVE  OF  THE  SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW.
   §  3.  Paragraph 10 of subsection (g) of section 4303 of the insurance
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as follows:
   (F) REIMBURSEMENT FOR COVERED SERVICES PROVIDED  BY  A  MOBILE  CRISIS
 INTERVENTION  SERVICES PROVIDER SHALL BE AT A RATE THAT IS NOT LESS THAN
 THE RATE THAT WOULD BE PAID FOR SUCH SERVICES PURSUANT  TO  THE  MEDICAL
 ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  UNDER  TITLE  ELEVEN  OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as subpart A of part II of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, takes
 effect, and shall apply to policies and contracts issued, renewed, modi-
 fied, altered, or amended on and after such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14497-01-4

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