What's happening
This bill adds nursing home Medicaid rate protections for facilities serving individuals returning from incarceration.
Why it matters
Expands Medicaid rate protections to nursing homes serving people recently released from incarceration. , which may encourage more facilities to accept this population and address their unique medical and social needs.
Aims to ensure financial stability for facilities caring for formerly incarcerated individuals. by guaranteeing reimbursement rates at least as high as those in effect in previous years, adjusted for inflation, reducing financial disincentives.
Could help reduce barriers to appropriate long-term care for releasees with complex health needs. , supporting smoother community reintegration and potentially lowering recidivism linked to unmet health needs.
Signals broader state recognition of the healthcare challenges faced by returning citizens. , addressing equity in access to specialized nursing and medical services for a vulnerable group.
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Medicaid Rate for Parolees' Nursing Care
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Luis R. Sepúlveda
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3899
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to applying a special Medicaid rate for releasees in nursing homes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2-b of section 2808 of the public health law, as added by section 47 of part C of chapter 109 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
(e) For rate periods subsequent to two thousand nine which utilize reported costs from a base year subsequent to two thousand two, the following categories of facilities, as established pursuant to applicable regulations, shall receive rates that are no less than equivalent, as determined by the commissioner, to the rates that were in effect for such facilities on December thirty-first, two thousand six, trended forward for inflation to the applicable rate period: (A) AIDS facilities or discrete AIDS units within facilities, (B) discrete units for residents receiving care in a long term inpatient rehabilitation program for traumatic brain injured persons, (C) discrete units for long term ventilator dependent residents, (D) discrete units providing specialized programs for residents requiring behavioral interventions, [and] (E) facilities or discrete units within facilities that provide extensive nursing, medical, psychological and counseling support services solely to children, and (F) facilities or discrete units within facilities that provide long term nursing or medical services for persons returning from incarceration.
§ 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2-c of section 2808 of the public health law, as added by section 95 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
(c) The non-capital component of the rates for: (i) AIDS facilities or discrete AIDS units within facilities; (ii) discrete units for residents
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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receiving care in a long-term inpatient rehabilitation program for traumatic brain injured persons; (iii) discrete units providing specialized programs for residents requiring behavioral interventions; (iv) discrete units for long-term ventilator dependent residents; [and] (v) facilities or discrete units within facilities that provide extensive nursing, medical, psychological and counseling support services solely to children; and (vi) facilities or discrete units within facilities providing long term nursing or medical services for persons returning from incarceration shall reflect the rates in effect for such facilities on January first, two thousand nine, as adjusted for inflation and rate appeals in accordance with applicable statutes, provided, however, that such rates for facilities described in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall reflect the application of the provisions of section twelve of part D of chapter fifty-eight of the laws of two thousand nine, and provided further, however, that insofar as such rates reflect trend adjustments for trend factors attributable to the two thousand eight and two thousand nine calendar years the aggregate amount of such trend factor adjustments shall be subject to the provisions of section two of part D of chapter fifty-eight of the laws of two thousand nine, as amended.
§ 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law.
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