What's happening
This bill allows facilities to receive reimbursement for up to twenty-five reserved bed days for therapeutic leave if specified in a patient’s care plan.
Why it matters
Supports Patient-Centered Care. By allowing reimbursement for up to 25 reserved bed days if specified in the care plan, facilities can better honor individualized therapeutic leave needs, such as visits with family or participation in community programs, which may be important for patient well-being and recovery.
Financial Stability for Facilities. The change helps nursing homes and similar facilities maintain stable revenue when residents are temporarily away for approved therapeutic reasons, reducing financial disincentives to support beneficial leave.
Encourages Comprehensive Care Planning. The requirement that extended therapeutic leave be specified in an individual’s care plan may prompt more thorough and personalized planning between care teams, patients, and families, ensuring that leave is thoughtfully considered and documented.
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Extend Reserved Bed Reimbursement
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Sponsors
3 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
238
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH, GUNTHER, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to extending the number of days within a twelve month period a facility may receive reimbursement for a reserved bed
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 25 of section 2808 of the public health law, as amended by section 2 of part E of chapter 57 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(ii) payment to a facility for reserved bed days provided on behalf of such person for therapeutic leaves of absence may not exceed ten days in any twelve month period. Provided, however, should such person's individual care plan provide for therapeutic leave, payment to a facility for reserve bed days on behalf of such person for non-hospitalization leaves may not exceed twenty-five days in any twelve month period.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01911-01-9
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