| Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; requires the commissioner of health to provide a quarterly report on known and expected department of health state funds Medicaid expenditures through state fiscal year 2026-2027 (Part A); extends the effectiveness of various provisions relating to social services and healthcare and determines which contracts shall expire September 30, 2025 until September 30, 2026 (Part B); relates to allowing a provider to provide additional information to a preferred drug program to justify the use of a prescription drug; repeals provisions relating to requiring managed care providers to cover certain medically necessary prescription drugs (Part C); reduces the hospital capital rate add-on (Part D); excludes managed care plans from the independent resolution process; shifts long-term nursing home stays from managed care to fee for service; authorizes penalties for managed care plans that do not meet contractual obligations (Part E); requires a health plan to pay the MCO provider tax for each calendar year; requires every health plan subject to the approved MCO provider tax to submit reports; imposes penalties for failure to submit such timely payments; grants the commissioner of health audit powers; relates to the healthcare stability fund; relates to Medicaid payment increases for certain medical services; makes certain Medicaid payment increases contingent upon the availability of funds within the healthcare stability fund; makes related provisions (Part F); relates to insurance coverage for medical malpractice paid for by funds from the hospital excess liability pool; extends portions of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part G); repeals provisions relating to enhancing the quality of adult living; repeals provisions relating to enriched housing programs; discontinues the empire clinical research investigator program; repeals provisions relating to the tick-borne disease institute (Part H); eliminates the fee paid by funeral directors for permits for burials and removals which are used to support the electronic death registration system (Part I); relates to extending the time for awards to be granted to applications for the statewide health care facility transformation III program (Part J); relates to appointment, duties, and other related provisions to the appointment of temporary operators for general hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centers, and adult care facilities (Part K); removes the requirement that consent for the payment of certain medical services must occur after such services are administered (Part L); requires general hospitals to report community benefit spending (Part M); relates to expanding the purposes of the spinal cord injury research board (Part N); updates controlled substance schedules to conform with those of the federal drug enforcement administration and updates the term "addict" to "person with a substance use disorder" (Part O); relates to protocols for emergency treatment of maternity patients and requirements for labelling of abortion medications (Part P); relates to improving access to and increasing coverage for infertility treatments (Part Q); requires the development of a statewide comprehensive emergency medical system plan and county EMS plans; declares EMS an essential service (Part R); strengthens requirements for material transactions reporting by healthcare entities to the department of health (Part S); requires hospitals to have sexual assault forensic examiners (Part T); removes provisions of law requiring the department of health to prepare and maintain a complete typewritten, printed, photographic or magnetically stored index of all births and deaths registered; makes related provisions and technical amendments; authorizes the commissioner of health to determine the means and methods by which genealogical records may be released (Part U); expands the scope of practice of certified nurse aides (Subpart A); expands the scope of practice of medical assistants (Subpart B); provides for the administration of certain immunizations by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (Subpart C); permits pharmacists to prescribe medications to treat nicotine dependence for smoking cessation (Subpart D); repeals articles governing certain healthcare professions in the education law and adding such laws to the public health law and transferring all functions, powers, duties, obligations and appropriations relating thereto (Subpart E); relates to supervision requirements of physician assistants (Subpart F) (Part V); enacts the nurse licensure compact to facilitate multistate licensure for nurses; makes related provisions (Part W); relates to the scope of practice of dental hygienists (Part X); extends certain acute care hospital services outside the facility and into patients' residences (Part Y); makes permanent the provisions relating to preferred sources for entities that provide employment to certain persons (Part Z); makes permanent provisions relating to clarifying the commissioners in the department of mental hygiene to design and implement time-limited demonstration programs (Part AA); relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating 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 BB); extends certain provisions relating to services for individuals with developmental disabilities (Part CC); amends the definition of minor to exclude certain homeless youth for purposes of allowing such homeless youth to consent to certain medical, dental, health and hospital services, including behavioral health services (Part DD); relates to involuntary admission and assisted outpatient treatment (Part EE); provides that director of the budget, the commissioners of the office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office of addiction services and supports, office of temporary and disability assistance, office of children and family services, and the state office for the aging shall establish a state fiscal year 2025-2026 targeted inflationary increase, effective April 1, 2025, for projecting for the effects of inflation upon rates of payments, contracts, or any other form of reimbursement for the programs and services (Part FF). |
