What's happening
This bill allows local service providers to be reimbursed for disability services before official approval, with repayment required if approval is later denied.
Why it matters
Allows immediate access to services for people with disabilities. By permitting reimbursement before official approval, individuals can start receiving needed programs or services without waiting for lengthy administrative processes, potentially reducing gaps in care.
Financial protection for local service providers. Service providers are more likely to accept clients into new or different programs quickly, knowing they will be reimbursed if approval is eventually granted, which may encourage responsiveness and flexibility in meeting client needs.
Built-in accountability and risk. If a service or program is ultimately denied approval, providers are required to repay any reimbursement within sixty days, helping safeguard public funds but also introducing some financial risk for providers who proceed without prior approval.
May speed up transitions between programs. For people whose needs change, this bill could help them move more seamlessly between services, supporting continuity of care and reducing administrative delays that might otherwise disrupt their support.
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Who cares
Local service providers
The bill would reimburse providers for qualifying clients’ moves to different programs or services awaiting commissioner approval, once those services are rendered and approved, as if approval had preceded entry or receipt.
People with disabilities receiving local services
The bill would allow reimbursement for a different program or service they enter or receive before approval, provided approval is ultimately granted.
Office for People With Developmental Disabilities
The bill would require providers to return any reimbursement for a service ultimately denied approval within 60 days of notice of the denial.
Headline styles
Reimburse Disability Service Providers
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to mental health
- Referred to mental health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Fund Local Disability Services
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor David Carlucci
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2046
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement of certain programs and services for persons with a disability
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 43.13 to read as follows: § 43.13 Reimbursement of certain programs and services for persons with
a disability.
If a person who qualifies for and has entered into a program and/or received a service furnished by a local service provider pursuant to subdivision (a) of section 13.15 of this chapter subsequently enters into a different program and/or receives a different service not yet approved by the commissioner, provided such approval is ultimately granted, the local service provider shall be reimbursed, after such services have been rendered and approved, the cost of such program and/or service as if it had been approved prior to such person's admission into such program or receipt of such service. If a service is ultimately not approved and reimbursement has already occurred, such reimbursement shall be returned to the office for people with developmental disabilities within sixty days of notice of such denial.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01693-01-9
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