Requires notice and additional review for managed care providers of the methodologies and fee schedules and other materials used for determining medicaid reimbursement rates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8360
IN SENATE
January 22, 2024
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, MAY, WEBB -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to determination
and approval of reimbursement rates for managed care providers under
medicaid
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 18 of section 364-j of the
2 social services law, as added by section 55 of part B of chapter 57 of
3 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) The department [of health] shall require the independent actuary
5 selected pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision to provide a
6 complete actuarial memorandum, along with all actuarial assumptions made
7 and all other data, materials and methodologies used in the development
8 of rates, to managed care providers thirty days prior to submission of
9 such rates to the centers for medicare and medicaid services for
10 approval. The actuarial memorandum shall include (i) any additional
11 materials submitted to the centers for medicare and medicaid services
12 including actuarial certification letters, (ii) any correspondence
13 between the state and the centers for medicare and medicaid services
14 related to the rates, (iii) other data, materials and methodologies
15 considered but not used by the department in the development of the
16 rates, and (iv) any information required to be disclosed to managed care
17 providers or the public under federal rules. The department shall
18 require the independent actuary to separately identify and present in a
19 collective group the required material under each applicable subpara-
20 graph (i) through (iv) of this paragraph. Managed care providers may
21 request that the department and its independent actuary conduct addi-
22 tional review of the actuarial soundness of the rate setting process
23 and/or methodology. Prior to submission of rates to the centers for
24 medicare and medicaid services for approval, the department shall
25 respond to any request from managed care providers for additional review
26 of the actuarial soundness of the rate setting process or methodology,
27 and in such response the department shall either: (1) agree to addi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 tional review and delay submission of the rates for approval to the
2 centers for medicare and medicaid services until the department's review
3 is complete and shared with managed care providers, or (2) decline the
4 requested additional review, stating in writing clear reasons why the
5 request is denied.
6 § 2. Subdivision 18 of section 364-j of the social services law is
7 amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
8 (f) The department shall notify managed care providers of reimburse-
9 ment rates prior to the effective date of such rates.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
11 ments to section 364-j of the social services law made by sections one
12 and two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
13 shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
