Requires the commissioner of health to publish certain information relating to home care services usage on the department's website on an annual basis including the number of individuals receiving care, those that have had permanent transfers and aggregated service usage.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1683--A
Cal. No. 686
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favora-
bly from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered
to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly,
recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reporting of home
care service usage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 3614-g to read as follows:
3 § 3614-g. Reporting of home care service usage. 1. For the purposes of
4 this section, the term "managed care plan" means a managed care plan
5 operating under section three hundred sixty-four-j of the social
6 services law or article forty-four of this chapter and providing home
7 care services in the medical assistance program.
8 2. On an annual basis, the department shall publish on its website, in
9 a searchable and accessible format, the following information:
10 (a) the number of individuals receiving home care services listed by
11 type of home care service; county of recipient; and services authorized
12 by the local department of social services and by each managed care
13 plan;
14 (b) the number of individuals receiving home care services by specific
15 public third-party payors;
16 (c) the number of individuals who have had a permanent transfer from
17 home care services to a nursing home or assisted living facility; and
18 (d) aggregated information about service usage, including the average
19 number of hours authorized across all recipients of home care services
20 during the previous reporting period by type of service, payor, and
21 county.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04828-03-3
S. 1683--A 2
1 3. Nothing in this section shall require or permit the disclosure of
2 any individual identifying information by the department, except as
3 otherwise authorized by law.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
