What's happening
This bill changes how social services district medical assistance expenditures are calculated, potentially lowering county spending starting after 2016.
Why it matters
Potential for Lower County Costs. By allowing the medical assistance expenditure calculation to use the greater of zero or a reduced amount (previous year’s amount minus 5% for the 2016-2017 period), the bill may reduce the financial burden on counties, freeing up resources for other local priorities or tax relief.
Stabilization of Future Costs. From 2017 onward, the bill sets the previous year’s medical assistance expenditure amount as unchanged, which can help counties better predict and control future expenses related to social services’ medical assistance programs.
Tax Cap Adjustments. The bill amends the general municipal law to let counties subtract any decrease in medical assistance expenditures from their tax cap calculations for fiscal years after 2016, potentially allowing counties to stay under state-imposed property tax caps more easily or increase local spending elsewhere without breaching limits.
Targeted Impact on Counties. The changes specifically benefit counties (not cities or towns), which are major contributors to Medicaid and social services funding in New York, and could influence local government decisions on budgets, services, and taxation.
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Change Medicaid Spending Formula
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Sponsors
21 Co-sponsors
- Donna Lupardo
- Barbara Lifton
- William Magnarelli
- Robin Schimminger
- Thomas Abinanti
- Sandy Galef
- Fred Thiele
- Aileen Gunther
- Ellen C. Jaffee
- Anthony Brindisi
- Kenneth Zebrowski
- Joseph Giglio
- Steven Otis
- David Buchwald
- Angelo Santabarbara
- Albert A. Stirpe
- Carrie Woerner
- Harry B. Bronson
- Charles Lavine
- Philip Ramos
- Didi Barrett
21 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
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Change Medicaid Spending Formula
In Senate Committee · Local Government · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3200
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, LUPARDO, LIFTON, MAGNARELLI, SCHIMMINGER, ABINANTI, GALEF, THIELE, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, BRINDISI, ZEBROWSKI, GIGLIO, OTIS, BUCHWALD, SANTABARBARA, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, BUTLER, CROUCH, FINCH, FITZPATRICK, FRIEND, GOODELL, GRAF, HAWLEY, JENNE, JOHNS, KOLB, LOPEZ, MAGEE, MAYER, McDO- NOUGH, McKEVITT, MONTESANO, OAKS, PALMESANO, RA, RAIA, SALADINO, WALTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, and to amend the general municipal law, in relation to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (c-1) of section 1 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, as added by section 1 of part F of chapter 56 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
(c-1) Notwithstanding any provisions of subdivision (c) of this section to the contrary, effective April 1, 2013, for the period January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 and for each calendar year thereafter, the medical assistance expenditure amount for the social services district for such period shall be [equal to] the greater of (i) zero; or (ii) the previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure amount minus five percent of the medical assistance expenditure amount for the period January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2017, except that:
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[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(1) for the period January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013, the previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be increased by 2%;
(2) for the period January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, the previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be increased by 1%; and
(3) for the period January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017, the previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be unchanged.
§ 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 3-c of the general municipal law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (viii) to read as follows:
(viii) Subtract the amount that the prior fiscal year's medical assistance expenditure amount exceeds the current fiscal year's medical assistance expenditure amount, provided that this shall only apply to counties and shall only apply to fiscal years that begin after two thousand sixteen.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that the amendments to section 3-c of the general municipal law made by section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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