What's happening
This bill requires at least 90 days' notice before Medicaid compliance or billing rule changes that could affect auditing or repayments take effect.
Why it matters
Gives Medicaid providers more time to adjust. By mandating at least 90 days' notice before changes to compliance or billing standards take effect, the bill helps healthcare providers better prepare for new rules, reducing confusion and rushed updates.
Reduces risk of surprise repayments or audits. Providers will have clearer advance warning before any new regulation that could expose them to audits, withheld payments, or required repayments—helping them avoid costly mistakes or compliance errors.
Improves transparency in state rulemaking. The legislation increases government accountability by requiring more advance disclosure of impactful rule changes, strengthening trust between providers and the state.
Could help prevent service disruption to patients. By giving providers time to comply with new requirements, the bill may decrease the chance that billing or compliance issues interrupt patient care or delay Medicaid payments.
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Delay Medicaid Audit Rules
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Delay Medicaid Audit Rules
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Operations · Sponsor Anna Kaplan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6059
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in relation to rule making procedures
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 5 of section 202 of the state administrative procedure act, as amended by chapter 610 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
(iv) give the effective date of the rule, provided, however, that, with respect to rules that require changes to compliance or billing standards that could result in eventual withholdings or takebacks due to Medicaid auditing and/or self-disclosure obligations, such effective date shall not be sooner than ninety (90) days from the publication of the notice of adoption of the rule;
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01522-01-9
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