Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health and the commissioner of health to waive rules and regulations to address barriers to collaboration by mental health providers and providers of home care services; provides further that regulations pertaining to patient safety may not be waived, nor shall regulations be waived if such waiver would risk patient safety.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3872--A
Cal. No. 298
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the geriatric
service demonstration program to promote mental health and home care
collaboration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 7.41 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as added by chapter 568 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (c) The commissioner may adopt rules and regulations necessary to
5 implement the provisions of this section, provided however that the
6 commissioner and the commissioner of health shall be authorized to waive
7 rules and regulations of the office, and of the department of health,
8 respectively, to address barriers to collaboration by mental health
9 providers and providers of home care services under subdivision (a) of
10 this section, including barriers related to medical assistance
11 reimbursement, service procedures, care coordination and direct care
12 worker training applicable to such providers; provided further, that
13 regulations pertaining to patient safety may not be waived, nor shall
14 any regulations be waived if such waiver would risk patient safety.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10086-02-9
