What's happening
This bill authorizes and supports collaborative programs to address health care disparities and improve access and treatment for underserved populations in New York.
Why it matters
Targets Specific Health Disparities. The bill identifies particular diseases and conditions (like diabetes, hypertension, sickle cell disease, certain cancers, and substance abuse) as focus areas, ensuring that programs directly address the most significant and prevalent health challenges in underserved populations.
Promotes Flexible, Community-Based Solutions. By authorizing collaborative models—such as partnerships between hospitals, home care agencies, physicians, and other community partners—the bill encourages tailored, local approaches that can adapt to unique community needs and cultural contexts.
Supports Workforce Diversity and Training. The legislation highlights recruiting and training healthcare professionals from minority populations and providing continuing education, aiming to make care more culturally and linguistically compatible and to address provider shortages in underserved areas.
Enables Innovation and Reduces Red Tape. The bill allows for regulatory waivers and new payment models (like bundled payments), making it easier for providers to implement person-centered, cost-effective services and innovative care delivery strategies, as well as to seek direct grant support for such initiatives.
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Team Up on Health Disparities
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Team Up to Fight Health Gaps
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Kemp Hannon
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2925
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to collaborative models for addressing health care disparities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2805-x of the public health law is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
(d) Collaborative programs to address disparities in health care access or treatment, and/or conditions of higher prevalence, in certain populations, where such collaborative programs could provide and manage services in a more effective, person-centered and cost-efficient manner for reduction or elimination of such disparities.
(i) Such programs may target one or more disparate conditions, or areas of under-service, evidenced in defined populations, including but not be limited to:
(A) cardiovascular disease;
(B) hypertension;
(C) diabetes;
(D) obesity;
(E) asthma;
(F) sickle cell disease;
(G) breast, lung, prostate and colorectal cancers;
(H) geographic shortage of primary care, prenatal/obstetric care, specialty medical care, home health care, or culturally and linguistically compatible care;
(I) alcohol, tobacco, or substance abuse;
(J) post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions more prevalent among veterans of the United States military services;
(K) attracting members of minority populations to the field and practice of medicine; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(L) such other areas approved by the commissioner.
(ii) Collaborative hospital-home care-physician, and as applicable additional partner, models may include under such disparities programs:
(A) service planning and design;
(B) recruitment of specialty personnel and/or specialty training of professionals or other direct care personnel (including physicians, home care and hospital staffs), patients and informal caregivers;
(C) continuing medical education and clinical training for physicians, follow-up evaluations, and supporting educational materials;
(D) use of evidenced-based approaches and/or best practices to treatment;
(E) reimbursement of uncovered services;
(F) bundled or other integrated payment methods to support the necessary, coordinated and cost-effective services;
(G) regulatory waivers to facilitate flexibility in provider collaboration and person-centered care;
(H) patient/family peer support and education;
(I) data collection, research and evaluation of efficacy; and/or
(J) other components or innovations satisfactory to the commissioner.
(iii) Nothing contained in this paragraph shall prevent a physician, physicians group, home care agency, or hospital from individually applying for said grant.
(iv) The commissioner shall consult with physicians, home care agencies, hospitals, consumers, statewide associations representative of such participants, and other experts in health care disparities, in developing an application process for grant funding or rate adjustment, and for request of state regulatory waivers, to facilitate implementation of disparities programs under this paragraph.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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