Senate Bill S9664

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to home care and hospice worker shortage areas and disciplines

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee


  • 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-S9664 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A313
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3614 & 2807-v, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8687, A10818
2019-2020: S1420, A6768
2021-2022: S3748, A1060

2023-S9664 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of health to adjust medical assistance rates of payment for certified home health agencies, managed long term care plans, hospices, long term home health care programs, licensed home care services agencies and other entities for recruitment, training and retention of direct care workers for services in shortage areas and by shortage disciplines.

2023-S9664 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9664 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9664
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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  home  care  and
   hospice worker shortage areas and disciplines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 3614 of the public health law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 9-a to read as follows:
   9-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  INCONSISTENT  PROVISION  OF  THIS SECTION,
 EFFECTIVE FOR ANNUAL PERIODS BEGINNING APRIL FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND  TWEN-
 TY-THREE,  AND  FOR  EACH  ANNUAL PERIOD THEREAFTER, THE COMMISSIONER IS
 AUTHORIZED, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY  OF  FEDERAL  FINANCIAL  PARTIC-
 IPATION  AND  UPON  APPROVAL  OF  THE  STATE  DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET, TO
 FURTHER ADJUST MEDICAL ASSISTANCE RATES OF PAYMENT  FOR  CERTIFIED  HOME
 HEALTH  AGENCIES, MANAGED LONG TERM CARE PLANS, HOSPICES, LONG TERM HOME
 HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS, LICENSED HOME  CARE  SERVICES  AGENCIES  PROVIDING
 SERVICES  UNDER  CONTRACT  WITH  SUCH AGENCIES AND PLANS, AND SUCH OTHER
 ENTITIES QUALIFYING UNDER SUBDIVISION NINE OF THIS SECTION, TARGETED FOR
 RECRUITMENT, TRAINING AND RETENTION OF DIRECT CARE WORKERS FOR  SERVICES
 IN  SHORTAGE AREAS AND BY SHORTAGE DISCIPLINES WHICH MAY INCLUDE NURSES,
 THERAPISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, HOME HEALTH AIDES AND PERSONAL CARE AIDES.
   THE COMMISSIONER IS FURTHER AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE SUCH ADJUSTMENTS  TO
 PILOT  TEST THE IMPACT ON RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF ALLOWING FUNDS TO
 BE USED FOR CRITICAL SUPPORTS AND INCENTIVES FOR DIRECT CARE  PERSONNEL,
 INCLUDING  TRANSPORTATION,  EDUCATION,  TRAINING, CHILD DAY CARE, CAREER
 LADDER, PEER SUPPORT, AND OTHER  SUPPORTS  WHICH  THE  COMMISSIONER  MAY
 DETERMINE.
   NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  INCONSISTENT  PROVISION  OF SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT
 HUNDRED SEVEN-V OF THIS CHAPTER, FUNDS FOR SUCH ADJUSTMENTS MAY BE  MADE
 AVAILABLE,  UPON  THE  APPROVAL  OF  THE STATE BUDGET DIRECTOR, FROM ANY
 UNEXPENDED FUNDS AND BALANCES AVAILABLE UNDER SUCH SECTION, AND IN ANNU-
 AL AMOUNTS OF UP TO THIRTY PERCENT OF THE AGGREGATE LEVEL SPECIFIED  FOR
 ADJUSTMENTS UNDER SUBDIVISION NINE OF THIS SECTION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01466-01-3
              

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