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S08007 Summary:

BILL NOS08007C
 
SAME ASSAME AS UNI. A09007-C
 
SPONSORBUDGET
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd Various Laws, generally
 
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2022-2023 state fiscal year; relates to the implementation of the nurses across New York (NANY) program (Part A); allows pharmacists to direct limited service laboratories and order and administer COVID-19 and influenza tests; modernizes nurse practitioners; allows certain individuals to administer tests to determine the presence of COVID-19 or its antibodies or influenza virus in certain situations; relates to enacting the "nurse practitioners modernization act"; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof (Part C); relates to increasing general public health work base grants for both full-service and partial-service counties and allow for local health departments to claim up to fifty percent of personnel service costs (Part E); relates to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates, in relation to the cap on local Medicaid expenditures (Part H); provides a one percent across the board payment increase to all qualifying fee-for-service Medicaid rates (Part I); relates to extending the statutory requirement to reweight and rebase acute hospital rates (Part J); relates to the creation of a new statewide health care facility transformation program (Part K); relates to the definition of revenue in the minimum spending statute for nursing homes and the rates of payment and rates of reimbursement for residential health care facilities, in relation to making a temporary payment to facilities in severe financial distress; requires certain percentages of revenue be spent on direct resident care and resident-facing staffing (Part M); relates to private duty nursing services reimbursement for nurses servicing adult members; relates to rates of payment for continuous nursing services for certain adults; directs the department of health to establish or procure the services of an independent panel of clinical professionals and to develop and implement a uniform task-based assessment tool; directs the department of health to develop guidelines and standards for the use of tasking tools (Part O); relates to the essential plan and qualified health plans to contract with national cancer institute-designated cancer centers, where such centers agree to certain terms and conditions; requires the department of health to select an independent contractor to generate a report that reviews and makes recommendations concerning the status of services offered by managed care organizations contracting with the state to manage services provided under the Medicaid program (Part P); requires private insurance plans to cover abortion services without cost-sharing (Part R); relates to reimbursement for commercial and Medicaid services provided via telehealth; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof (Part V); eliminates unnecessary requirements from the utilization threshold program (Part W); relates to marriage certificates (Part Y); relates to malpractice and professional medical conduct; relates to malpractice and professional medical conduct; extends certain provisions concerning the hospital excess liability pool; amends the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 and other laws relating to extending certain provisions; extends provisions relating to excess coverage (Part Z); relates to clarifying provisions regarding emergency medical services and surprise bills (Subpart A); relates to the federal no surprises act (Subpart B); relates to administrative simplification (Subpart C) (Part AA); extends various provisions relating to health and mental hygiene; relates to payment by governmental agencies for general hospital inpatient services; relates to the general public health work program; relates to rates for residential health care facilities; authorizes pharmacists to perform collaborative drug therapy management with physicians in certain settings; authorizes reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and administration thereof; directs the department of health to convene a work group on rare diseases; creates the radon task force (Part CC); establishes a cost of living adjustment for designated human services programs (Part DD); relates to a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline system (Part EE); relates to reinvesting savings recouped from behavioral health transition into managed care back into behavioral health services (Part FF); relates to waiver of certain regulations (Part GG); relates to community residences for addiction (Part II); relates to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates; extends government rates for behavioral services; references the office of addiction services and supports; increases Medicaid payments to providers through managed care organizations; provides equivalent fees through an ambulatory patient group methodology; extends government rates for behavioral services referencing the office of addiction services and supports (Part LL); relates to rental and mortgage payments for the mentally ill (Part NN); relates to the appointment of temporary operators for the continued operation of programs and the provision of services for persons with serious mental illness and/or developmental disabilities and/or chemical dependence (Part OO); relates to the process for the selection of fiscal intermediary services contractors for the consumer directed personal assistance program; relates to certain surveys and to the award of contracts (Part PP); relates to health homes and penalties for managed care providers; directs the department of health to establish or procure the services of an independent panel of clinical professionals and to develop and implement a uniform task-based assessment tool, in relation to prohibiting the extension of certain contracts (Part QQ); relates to the deposit of certain revenues from taxes into the New York state agency trust fund, distressed provider assistance account; relates to certain Medicaid management; repeals certain provisions relating to financially distressed hospitals (Part RR); directs the department of health to conduct a study within Kings county to determine ways to improve access to health services and facilities (Part SS); relates to general hospital inpatient reimbursement for annual rates, in relation to supplemental Medicaid managed care payments (Part TT)
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