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Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to health
- Committee discharged and committed to health
- Referred to social services
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursement for medicaid services required by state law
Purpose
This bill would require that the state will pay one hundred percent of the non-federal share of costs for Medicaid services that are not required to be provided under federal law.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 - adds a new paragraph (z) to subdivision 1 of section 368-a of the Social Services Law to provide that notwithstanding any inconsistent law to the contrary, the Department of Health shall pay one hundred percent of the non-federal share for medical services (Medicaid) required by state law but not required to be provided by Federal Law.
Section 2 - Effective date.
Current law
Currently, costs for Medicaid services that are not reimbursed by the federal government are shared in varying percentages between the state and county governments.
Justification
The primary funding mechanisms for county governments, sales taxes and real property taxes, were never designed or expected to fund both local services and a federal and state mandated medical services program. At the Medicaid program has grown, with the active assistance of the state in mandating almost every optional service that may be available under the Federal Medicaid program, real property values and economic activity have remained stagnant throughout the state, and particularly throughout the upstate region. Upstate property owners face some of the highest real property tax rates in the country, with tax rates going higher every year. At the same time, wages and job opportunities continue to disappear. The burden of federally mandated services is difficult enough for counties to bear, and it is important to note that New York is one of only a handful of states that requires local government pay any portion of Medicaid costs. If the state wishes to provide an optional service, it is time for the state to pay for that service.
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Legislative history
New bill.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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