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S01814 Summary:

BILL NO	S01814
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	RIVERA
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §461-l, Soc Serv L; amd §4012, Pub Health L
Establishes reimbursement mechanisms for access to hospice services for residents of assisted living programs.

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S01814 Actions:

BILL NO	S01814
01/16/2019	REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/08/2020	REFERRED TO HEALTH

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S01814 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1814
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law and the public  health  law,  in
          relation  to  authorizing  residents  of  assisted  living programs to
          receive hospice services

          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 461-l of the
     2  social services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iv) to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (iv) Eligible persons receiving assisted living program services shall
     5  be permitted to access and receive  hospice  services  from  a  provider
     6  under  article forty of the public health law while continuing to remain
     7  in the assisted living program.
     8    § 2. Section 4012 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
     9  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    10    6.  Hospice  services  for residents of assisted living programs under
    11  section four hundred sixty-one-1 of the social services law; the commis-
    12  sioner may through regulation modify the scope of personal care services
    13  to prevent duplication of personal care services provided by hospice and
    14  the assisted living program.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07636-01-9

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