What's happening
This bill requires Medicaid insurers to pass through minimum wage funds to home and community-based long-term care providers and intermediaries.
Why it matters
Ensures that Medicaid funding intended to cover minimum wage increases actually reaches the frontline home and community-based care workforce. , rather than being absorbed by insurers or diverted to other expenses.
Mandates changes to existing contracts between Medicaid insurers and care providers when minimum wage laws change. , requiring timely updates so that providers receive appropriate funding to cover higher labor costs.
Prevents insurers from using minimum wage funds to replace or offset existing payments for services. , protecting the overall funding levels for long-term care and safeguarding care quality for vulnerable populations.
Broadly applies to all Medicaid managed care and managed long-term care plans. , meaning that the impact will be widespread across New York’s home care system, potentially improving recruitment and retention of direct care workers.
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Protect Home Care Worker Wages
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 2788a
- Amend and recommit to health
- Referred to health
- Referred to 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.
Protect Home Care Workers’ Pay
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2788--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to payments for home and community based long term care services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 3614-f to read as follows:
§ 3614-f. Payments for home and community based long term care services. Contracts or agreements with insurers under the medical assistance program for home and community based long term care services provided under this article or by fiscal intermediaries operating pursuant to section three hundred sixty-five-f of the social services law shall provide terms and conditions for the pass-through of funds appropriated to compensate for minimum wage pursuant to section six hundred fifty-two of the labor law. If necessary in order to comply with this section, existing contracts with home and community based long term care services providers under this article and to fiscal intermediaries operating pursuant to section three hundred sixty-five-f of the social services law shall be amended at least ninety days prior to the effective date of any such law or regulation impacting wages. Insurers shall not use such funds to supplant payments for existing services under the Medicaid program. Such insurers shall include but not be limited to Medicaid managed care plans and Medicaid managed long term care plans.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03873-02-0
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