What's happening
This bill ensures adult care facility residents can choose their own health care providers, regardless of third party payor limitations.
Why it matters
Empowers residents to make personal health decisions. By removing restrictions tied to third party payor (insurance or government program) coverage, the bill guarantees that adult care facility residents can select their preferred health care providers, giving them greater control over their own medical care.
Reduces potential conflicts of interest. Facilities and insurers can no longer limit residents’ provider choices based on contractual or cost-saving arrangements, helping to ensure that residents’ interests, not institutional convenience, drive health care decisions.
May improve continuity and quality of care. Residents can continue receiving care from providers they trust or who are familiar with their medical history, which can enhance treatment outcomes and overall satisfaction with care.
Could have cost implications for residents. Without third party payor limitations, residents may choose providers who are out-of-network or not covered by their insurance, potentially leading to higher out-of-pocket expenses.
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Let Residents Pick Doctors
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History
- Substituted by S7190
- Advanced to third reading cal.398
- Reported
- Referred to health
Companion bill
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Let Residents Pick Doctors
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
9521
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2020
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to adult care facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 3 of section 461-d of the social services law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the social services law relating to adult care facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 874 and A. 1084, is amended to read as follows:
(m) Every resident or, in the case of a person who lacks capacity to consent to his or her health care, a person legally authorized to consent on behalf of the resident, shall have the right to choose the resident's own health care providers for services not covered by his or her admission agreement[, subject to limitations that may apply as a result of a resident's third party payor coverage].
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the social services law relating to adult care facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 874 and A. 1084, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03365-02-0
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