STATE OF NEW YORK
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2358--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 18, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, L. ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, STECK, HOOPER,
D'URSO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI, CARROLL, COOK,
GUNTHER, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
-- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly
Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to managed long term
care plans not being controlled or owned by for-profit health mainte-
nance organizations or insurers
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 1 of section 4403-f of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1997, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (b) "Eligible applicant" means an entity controlled or wholly owned by
5 one or more of the following: a hospital as defined in subdivision one
6 of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter; a home care agency
7 licensed or certified pursuant to article thirty-six of this chapter;
8 [an] a not-for-profit entity that has received a certificate of authori-
9 ty pursuant to sections forty-four hundred three, forty-four hundred
10 three-a or an integrated delivery system that has received a certificate
11 of authority pursuant to section forty-four hundred eight-a of this
12 article (as added by chapter six hundred thirty-nine of the laws of
13 nineteen hundred ninety-six), or a not-for-profit health maintenance
14 organization authorized under article forty-three of the insurance law;
15 or a not-for-profit organization which has a history of providing or
16 coordinating health care services and long term care services to the
17 elderly and disabled. However, an entity owned or controlled by an
18 entity that has received a certificate of authority pursuant to section
19 forty-four hundred three or forty-four hundred three-a of this article
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and has received a certificate of authority under this section prior to
2 the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand eighteen
3 which enacted this sentence shall be deemed to be an eligible applicant.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
5 the amendments to section 4403-f of the public health law made by
6 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
7 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
