Relates to state reimbursement for public health services provided by municipalities and to the incorporation of home health and hospices services within municipal public health services plans.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11170--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 21, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. DESTITO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
GUNTHER, LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to state reimburse-
ment for public health services provided by municipalities
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 3 of section 602 of the
2 public health law is amended by adding two new subparagraphs 6 and 7 to
3 read as follows:
4 (6) home health services, which shall mean services provided by a
5 municipality that is a certified home health agency or a long term home
6 health care program authorized under article thirty-six of this chapter
7 to provide services to the residents of that municipality.
8 (7) hospice services, which shall mean services provided by a munici-
9 pality that is a certified hospice authorized under article forty of
10 this chapter to provide services to the residents of that municipality.
11 § 2. Any rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner of health
12 pursuant to article 6 of the public health law which are inconsistent
13 with the provisions of this act, including any such rules and regu-
14 lations which limit state reimbursement to municipalities for services
15 provided pursuant to section one of this act on the basis that a provid-
16 er other than the municipality is also approved to operate within the
17 municipality, shall be deemed null, void and unenforceable upon the
18 effective date of this act.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
20 have been in full force and effect on and after July 1, 2010.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17393-05-0
