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S00058 Summary:

BILL NOS00058B
 
SAME ASSAME AS UNI. A00158-B
 
SPONSORBUDGET
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd Various Laws, generally
 
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the health and mental hygiene budget for the 2009-2010 state fiscal plan; relates to payment by governmental agencies for general hospital inpatient services, inpatient medical assistance rates for non-public general hospitals, grants to public general hospitals, tobacco control and insurance initiatives pool distributions, health care initiatives pool distributions and payments made on behalf of persons enrolled in Medicaid managed care or family health plus; to direct the commissioners of health and mental health to enhance funding of ambulatory patient group methodology and expand certain programs; to direct the commissioners of health, and mental retardation and developmental disabilities to enhance funding of the ambulatory patient group methodology; to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing the statewide patient-centered medical home; to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the Adirondack medical home multipayor demonstration program; to amend the social services law, in relation to Medicaid coverage of smoking cessation, cardiac rehabilitation services and substance abuse intervention; to amend the social services law, in relation to the primary care case management program; to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the state electronic health records loan program; to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the authorization of the dormitory authority to issue bonds for health care; to amend the public health law, in relation to defining certain terms and designating pharmaceutical manufacturers; to amend the social services law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health to negotiate pharmaceutical rebates, retrospective and prospective drug utilization review, and the duration of drug therapy, the development of clinical prescribing guidelines, drug coverage for persons who are beneficiaries under Part D; to amend the social services law, in relation to electronic transmission of prescriptions; to amend the social services law, in relation to eligibility for medical assistance and the family health plus program; to amend the welfare reform act of 1997, in relation to applicants for public assistance; to amend the public health law, in relation to child insurance pans; to amend the public health law, in relation to fees for the establishment of hospitals, approval of the construction of hospitals, licensure of home care services agencies, the establishment of certified home health agencies, changes in the ownership of a home health agency hospice construction, distribution of the professional education pools, the general hospital indigent care pool and the comprehensive diagnostic and treatment centers indigent care program; to amend the elder law, in relation to the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage; to amend the insurance law, in relation to examinations and appraisals of authorized insurers and employee welfare funds; to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to the sales of cigarettes and tobacco products and the health care reform act (HCRA) resources fund; to repeal certain provisions of the public health law relating to the preferred drug program and the telemedicine demonstration program; to repeal certain provisions of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, amending the social services law and the public health law relating to expanding Medicaid coverage and rates of payment for residential health care facilities, relating thereto; to repeal certain provisions of the social services law relating to specialized HIV pharmacies, the family health plus program, eligibility for medical assistance; to repeal certain provisions of the elder law relating to the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage; and providing for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof; to repeal certain provisions of the insurance law relating to records made available by corporations (Part C).
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