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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5676
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 16, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  a  review  and
          recommendations  of  reimbursement adequacy and other matters relating
          to early intervention

          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  2559-c to read as follows:
     3    § 2559-c. Early intervention rate adequacy review. 1. The commissioner
     4  shall review the rates of reimbursement made through  the  early  inter-
     5  vention program for rate adequacy. The review shall include:
     6    (a)  a  comprehensive  assessment  of the existing methodology used to
     7  determine  payment  for  early  intervention  screenings,   evaluations,
     8  services and service coordination, including but not limited to:
     9    (i)  analysis  of early intervention rules, regulations, and policies,
    10  including policies, processes, and revenue sources;
    11    (ii) analysis of costs to providers participating in the early  inter-
    12  vention  program,  including time and cost of travel, service provision,
    13  and administrative activities; and
    14    (iii) analysis by discipline and labor region  of  salary  levels  for
    15  individuals providing early intervention services compared to the salary
    16  levels for individuals in the same disciplines and labor regions provid-
    17  ing services other than in the early intervention program;
    18    (b)  recommendations for maintaining or changing reimbursement method-
    19  ologies. Recommendations under this paragraph shall be  consistent  with
    20  federal law and shall include recommendations for appropriate changes in
    21  state  law and regulations. The recommendations shall consider appropri-
    22  ate payment methodologies and rates for in-person and  telehealth  early
    23  intervention  evaluations  and  services  to  address barriers in timely
    24  service provision as well as racial  and  socioeconomic  disparities  in
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10413-01-1
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     1  access,  with  consideration  of  factors including, but not limited to,
     2  payment for bilingual services,  travel  time,  geographic  variability,
     3  access  to and cost of technology, cost of living, and other barriers to
     4  timely service provision;
     5    (c)  the projected number of children who will need early intervention
     6  services in the next five years disaggregated by county;
     7    (d) the workforce needed to provide services in the next five years to
     8  all children eligible for early intervention services, disaggregated  by
     9  county; and
    10    (e) opportunities for stakeholder input on current rate methodologies.
    11    2.  Within  one  year  after  the  effective date of this section, the
    12  commissioner shall submit a report of the findings  and  recommendations
    13  under  this  section  to  the  governor,  the temporary president of the
    14  senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of  the  senate  and
    15  assembly  committees on health, and shall post the report on the depart-
    16  ment's website.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.