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Senate Bill S1918

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities

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2025-S1918 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-l, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8861
2023-2024: S4789

2025-S1918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities who are Medicaid eligible adults eighteen years of age or older with a diagnosis of a neurological, muscular, or neuromuscular condition, and a mobility impairment; provides that a specialized health home shall be reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis and shall receive enhanced rates of payment; makes related provisions.

2025-S1918 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1918
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RIVERA, CLEARE -- 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  a  specialized
   health  home  program to serve certain individuals with physical disa-
   bilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  365-l  of  the social services law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 2-e to read as follows:
   2-E. THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A  SPECIALIZED  HEALTH  HOME
 PROGRAM TO SERVE INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES WHO ARE MEDICAID
 ELIGIBLE  ADULTS  EIGHTEEN  YEARS  OF AGE OR OLDER WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF A
 NEUROLOGICAL, MUSCULAR,  OR  NEUROMUSCULAR  CONDITION,  AND  A  MOBILITY
 IMPAIRMENT.  A SPECIALIZED HEALTH HOME SHALL BE REIMBURSED ON A FEE-FOR-
 SERVICE BASIS AND SHALL RECEIVE ENHANCED RATES OF PAYMENT ESTABLISHED BY
 THE COMMISSIONER. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED  TO  APPLY
 FOR  FEDERAL  WAIVERS  OR  STATE PLAN AMENDMENTS IF SUCH ACTION WOULD BE
 NECESSARY TO ASSIST IN PROMOTING THE  OBJECTIVES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION.
 SPECIALIZED  HEALTH  HOMES  RECEIVING FUNDS UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL
 DOCUMENT AND DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVE USE OF FUNDS DISTRIBUTED  HEREIN.
 THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL ESTABLISH STANDARDS FOR OPERATION OF A SPECIAL-
 IZED HEALTH HOME, INCLUDING REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law.  Effective immediately, the commissioner of health
 shall make regulations and take  all  actions  reasonably  necessary  to
 implement this act on that date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04796-01-5

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Anne-Elizabeth…
7 months ago

We have needed such a program for a long time. The current MLTCs do not have true disability competency and those that existed previously were underfunded and then blamed for doing their job, providing service.

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