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This bill adds assisted living programs to those eligible for Medicaid vital access provider funding and enhanced rural payments.
Why it matters
Expanding eligibility for Medicaid funding to assisted living programs could help stabilize and sustain these facilities. , which often serve low-income seniors and people with disabilities who require supportive housing but not full nursing home care.
Enhanced rural payments for assisted living programs may improve access to care in underserved rural communities. , addressing gaps where older adults have limited choices outside of distant or costly nursing homes.
Including assisted living programs in vital access provider funding recognizes their role in the broader healthcare safety net. , potentially allowing these providers to invest in quality improvements and prevent closures that could displace vulnerable residents.
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Fund Assisted Living Programs
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- Referred to health
- Print number 1612a
- Amend and recommit to health
- Referred to health
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Fund Assisted Living Programs
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Kemp Hannon
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1612--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to Medicaid providers eligible for access funding under the vital access provider program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 2826 of the public health law, as added by section 27 of part C of chapter 60 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, within funds appropriated and subject to the availability of federal financial participation, the commissioner may grant approval of a temporary adjustment to the non-capital components of rates, or make temporary lump-sum Medicaid payments, to eligible general hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, clinics [and], home care providers, and assisted living programs, provided however, that should federal financial participation not be available for any eligible provider, then payments pursuant to this subdivision may be made as grants and shall not be deemed to be medical assistance payments.
§ 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision (f) of section 2826 of the public health law, as added by section 14 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
(i) Providers serving rural areas as such term is defined in section two thousand nine hundred fifty-one of this chapter, including but not limited to hospitals, residential health care facilities, diagnostic and treatment centers, ambulatory surgery centers [and], clinics and assisted living programs shall be eligible for enhanced payments or reimbursement under a supplemental rate methodology for the purpose of promoting access and improving the quality of care.
§ 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00646-02-7
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