 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1818
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to timely filing of
          Medicaid claims
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 8 of section 367-b of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d) The commissioner shall provide by regulation for  a  delay  reason
     4  code  to  allow the filing and paying of otherwise-valid medical assist-
     5  ance claims that are not submitted in accordance with  the  department's
     6  timely  filing  requirements  due  to  the  implementation  of  a new or
     7  upgraded electronic medical record system.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  become a law. The commissioner of health shall make regulations and take
    10  other  actions  reasonably necessary to implement this act on its effec-
    11  tive date.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03864-01-9
Relates to timely filing of Medicaid claims

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