Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care by 15 million dollars for period 7/1/09 to 3/31/10, and by 20 million dollars annually thereafter for each period from April 1 to March 31; allocates $20 million for such reimbursements on an annual fiscal year basis thereafter.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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692
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBS, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
COLTON, GUNTHER, HOOPER, MILLER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medicaid
reimbursement of private duty nursing services and care
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 365-k to read as follows:
3 § 365-k. Reimbursement of private duty nursing services and care.
4 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, rates of payment
5 for care and services furnished by a private duty nurse that would
6 otherwise qualify for reimbursement pursuant to this title shall be
7 increased by an amount not to exceed fifteen million dollars in the
8 aggregate for the period July first, two thousand nine to March thirty-
9 first, two thousand ten, and twenty million dollars annually thereafter
10 for each period of April first to March thirty-first.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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