Provides that services provided to persons qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services shall not be provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10561
IN SENATE
May 21, 2026
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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 barring the
nursing diversion and transition Medicaid waiver from being carved
into Medicaid managed care
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d-2) of subdivision 3 of section 364-j of the
2 social services law, as amended by chapter 41 of the laws of 2025, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (d-2) Services provided pursuant to a waiver, granted pursuant to
5 subsection (c) of section 1915 of the federal social security act, to
6 persons suffering from traumatic brain injuries, shall not be provided
7 to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs estab-
8 lished pursuant to this section. Services provided pursuant to a waiver,
9 granted pursuant to subsection (c) of section 1915 of the federal social
10 security act, to persons qualifying for nursing home diversion and tran-
11 sition services, shall not be provided to medical assistance recipients
12 through managed care programs [until at least January first, two thou-
13 sand twenty-seven].
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
15 ments to section 364-j of the social services law made by section one of
16 this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
17 repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15894-01-6
