A06506 Summary:
| BILL NO | A06506 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S04253 |
| SPONSOR | Gunther |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §7.49, Ment Hyg L | |
| Requires the commissioner of the office of mental health to provide monthly status reports of the community investments and the impact on inpatient census to the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee and to post such report on the office's website. | |
A06506 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6506 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 19, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring monthly status reports of community investments and the impact on inpatient census The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 7.49 to read as follows: 3 § 7.49 Monthly status reports. 4 The commissioner shall provide monthly status reports of the community 5 investments and the impact on inpatient census to the chair of the 6 senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means 7 committee and shall post such reports on the office's publicly accessi- 8 ble website. Such reports shall include, but not be limited to: 9 (a) state operated psychiatric facility census; 10 (b) occurrence of census exceeding budgeted capacity and reason; 11 (c) occurrence of out of catchment area placements that are due to 12 insufficient capacity in the catchment area of the hospital; 13 (d) admissions and discharges; 14 (e) rate of Medicaid psychiatric inpatient readmissions to any hospi- 15 tal within thirty days of discharge; 16 (f) Medicaid emergency room psychiatric visits; 17 (g) descriptions of new community service investments; 18 (h) average length of stay and number of long-term stay patients; and 19 (i) an explanation of any material census reductions, when known to 20 the facility. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08277-01-1