Authorizes one or more demonstration projects that permit a managed long-term care plan to enroll persons that are permanently placed in a nursing home and to manage the nursing home benefit in one or more rural areas.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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547
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing one or
more demonstration projects that permit a managed long-term care plan
to enroll persons that are permanently placed in a nursing home and to
manage the nursing home benefit in one or more rural areas
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 4403-f of the
2 public health law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (v-e) to read
3 as follows:
4 (v-e) Notwithstanding clause thirteen of subparagraph (v) of this
5 paragraph, the department shall authorize one or more demonstration
6 projects that permit a managed long-term care plan to enroll persons
7 that are permanently placed in a nursing home and to manage the nursing
8 home benefit in one or more rural areas, as such term is defined in
9 section twenty-nine hundred fifty-one of this chapter. Such plan shall
10 be approved by the department to operate under this subparagraph in one
11 or more such rural areas, in order to study the effectiveness of managed
12 care models in assisting permanently-placed nursing home residents to
13 return to community-based settings. Nothing in this subparagraph shall
14 modify or alter any requirements of this section for plans authorized to
15 enroll persons under this subparagraph.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
17 the amendments to paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 4403-f of
18 the public health law made by section one of this act shall not affect
19 the expiration of such paragraph pursuant to subdivision (i) of section
20 111 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall
21 be deemed to expire therewith; provided, further, that the amendments to
22 section 4403-f of the public health law made by section one of this act
23 shall not affect the repeal of such section pursuant to chapter 659 of
24 the laws of 1997, as amended, and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02350-01-5
