Authorizes the provision of home health services by electronic, remote means pursuant to a physician-approved plan of care under the medical assistance program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3429
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, TOBACCO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
COOK, HOOPER, PHEFFER, REILLY, ROBINSON -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing the
provision of home health services by licensed providers through elec-
tronic, remote means
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the
2 social services law, as amended by chapter 59 of the laws of 1993, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (d) (i) home health services provided in a recipient's home and
5 prescribed by a physician including services of a nurse provided on a
6 part-time or intermittent basis rendered by an approved home health
7 agency or if no such agency is available, by a registered nurse,
8 licensed to practice in this state, acting under the written orders of a
9 physician and home health aide service by an individual or shared aide
10 provided by an approved home health agency when such services are deter-
11 mined to be cost effective and appropriate to meet the recipient's needs
12 for assistance subject to the provisions of [section three hundred
13 sixty-seven-j and] section three hundred sixty-seven-o of this title;
14 (ii) providers licensed under article thirty-six of the public health
15 law may provide home health services to recipients in their place of
16 residence by electronic, remote means, when such services are appropri-
17 ate and cost effective to meet the recipient's needs for assessment,
18 education, data collection and disease management in accordance with the
19 physician-approved plan of care. Such services may utilize monitoring
20 and real-time interactive video communication with the recipient in
21 accordance with such plan of care. Non-video equipment use, installa-
22 tion, maintenance and monitoring services shall be reimbursed to the
23 provider at a rate not less than two hundred dollars per month. Video,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 electronic, remote patient care services shall be provided by a regis-
2 tered professional nurse and shall be reimbursed to the provider at a
3 rate not less than seventy-five percent of reimbursement for an in-home
4 health service visit by a nurse;
5 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2012.
