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Assembly Bill A9553

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting audit and review of certain medical assistance program funds

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2025-A9553 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8949
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §37, Pub Health L

2025-A9553 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the reimbursement amount of certain overpayment claims and reviews where such overpayment was due to the provider's submission of records which were not in accordance with program requirements at the time but which were in accordance with current requirements as a result of changes to guidelines or regulations.

2025-A9553 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9553
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN, REYES, ROSENTHAL, BURDICK, JACOBSON,
   MAGNARELLI, REILLY, SCHIAVONI, SHIMSKY, STIRPE, JENSEN  --  read  once
   and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to the audit and
   review of medical assistance program funds by the  Medicaid  inspector
   general

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 37
 to read as follows:
   § 37. AUDIT AND REVIEW OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FUNDS. WHERE  THE
 INSPECTOR  DETERMINES  AN  OVERPAYMENT  OF  FUNDS  HAS OCCURRED DUE TO A
 PROVIDER'S SUBMISSION OF SUPPORTING RECORDS IN A FORM, FORMAT, OR METHOD
 OF TRANSMISSION THAT IS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROGRAM  REQUIREMENTS  IN
 EFFECT  AT  THE  TIME  OF  THE CLAIM, BUT, DUE TO INTERVENING CHANGES TO
 PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING  CHANGES  TO  STATE  AGENCY  GUIDELINES,
 REGULATIONS,  OR  OTHER GUIDANCE, IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS
 IN EFFECT AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTOR'S REVIEW OR DETERMINATION OR  ANY
 ADMINISTRATIVE  REVIEWS  AND  OTHER  COURT  PROCEEDINGS  RELATED  TO THE
 INSPECTOR'S REVIEW OR DETERMINATION, THEN, IN THE ABSENCE  OF  FRAUD  OR
 EVIDENCE  THE PROVIDER RECEIVED REIMBURSEMENT FOR ITEMS OR SERVICES THAT
 WERE NOT PROVIDED TO THE BENEFICIARY, OR THE BENEFICIARY WAS NOT  ELIGI-
 BLE  FOR  THE ITEMS OR SERVICES, RECOUPMENT FOR SUCH CLAIM DISALLOWANCES
 SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE REIMBURSEMENT  AMOUNT  OF  THE  CLAIMS  ACTUALLY
 REVIEWED BY THE INSPECTOR WITHOUT EXTRAPOLATION, AND THE INSPECTOR SHALL
 NOT  INITIATE NEW OR ADDITIONAL REVIEWS AGAINST THE PROVIDER ON THE SAME
 BASIS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to  audits
 commenced  on  or  after  such effective date, audits pending as of such
 date, and audits that the Medicaid inspector general has  concluded  but
 which  are  under administrative review or other properly filed judicial
 review or appeal.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14172-01-5

              

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