Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care by 15 million dollars for period 7/1/12 to 3/31/13, and by 20 million dollars annually thereafter for each period from April 1 to March 31.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2800--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBS, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
COLTON, GUNTHER, HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
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-o to read as follows:
3 § 365-o. 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 twelve to March thir-
9 ty-first, two thousand thirteen, and twenty million dollars annually
10 thereafter for each period of April first to March thirty-first.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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