Applies a special Medicaid rate of no less than one hundred twenty percent of the fee-for-service rate for residential health care facilities located in a county larger than two thousand square miles and operated by an organization with two hundred fifty certified beds or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8022
IN SENATE
March 10, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to applying a special
Medicaid rate for certain residential health care facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-c of section 2808 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
3 (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the
4 contrary, any residential health care facility established pursuant to
5 this article located in a county larger than two thousand square miles
6 and operated by an organization with two hundred fifty certified beds or
7 more in such county on January first, two thousand twenty shall be reim-
8 bursed at a rate of no less than one hundred twenty percent of the fee-
9 for-service rate of reimbursement, calculated pursuant to this section,
10 for such facility for inpatient services provided on or after April
11 first, two thousand twenty.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15649-02-0
