Sets the reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services to be a rate that is not less than the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant to the medical assistance program under title eleven of article five of the social services law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8549
IN SENATE
February 13, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to setting minimum
reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (I) of paragraph 35 of subsection (i) of
2 section 3216 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new item (vi)
3 to read as follows:
4 (vi) Reimbursement for covered services provided by a mobile crisis
5 intervention services provider shall be at a rate that is not less than
6 the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant to the medical
7 assistance program under title eleven of article five of the social
8 services law.
9 § 2. Subparagraph (I) of paragraph 5 of subsection (l) of section 3221
10 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new item (vi) to read as
11 follows:
12 (vi) Reimbursement for covered services provided by a mobile crisis
13 intervention services provider shall be at a rate that is not less than
14 the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant to the medical
15 assistance program under title eleven of article five of the social
16 services law.
17 § 3. Paragraph 10 of subsection (g) of section 4303 of the insurance
18 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as follows:
19 (F) Reimbursement for covered services provided by a mobile crisis
20 intervention services provider shall be at a rate that is not less than
21 the rate that would be paid for such services pursuant to the medical
22 assistance program under title eleven of article five of the social
23 services law.
24 § 4. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
25 manner as subpart A of part II of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, takes
26 effect, and shall apply to policies and contracts issued, renewed, modi-
27 fied, altered, or amended on and after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14497-01-4
