Bill Text: NY A06598 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires home health care professionals to use the adverse childhood experience questionnaire in assessing the patient's health risks; makes Medicaid reimbursement of primary care providers contingent upon such use; requires the department of social services to report to the senate and assembly health committees.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A06598 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06598-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6598

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          patient's  health  home  to use the adverse childhood experience ques-
          tionnaire in assessing the patient's health risks and to making  Medi-
          caid  reimbursement  of primary care providers contingent upon the use
          of the adverse childhood experience questionnaire; and to require  the
          commissioner  of  health  to submit reports to the senate and assembly
          health committees

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  social  services  law  is  amended by adding two new
     2  sections 365-l-1 and 365-l-2 to read as follows:
     3    § 365-l-1. Standards for provision of health home services to Medicaid
     4  enrollees with chronic conditions. Consistent with federal law to ensure
     5  federal financial participation, a health care professional providing  a
     6  patient's health home shall:
     7    1.  provide  comprehensive prevention and disease screening for his or
     8  her patients and managing his or her  patients'  chronic  conditions  by
     9  coordinating care;
    10    2.  enable  patients  to  have  access  to personal health information
    11  through a secure medium, such as through the internet,  consistent  with
    12  federal health information technology standards;
    13    3.  collaborate with the community health teams, including by develop-
    14  ing and implementing a comprehensive plan for participating patients;
    15    4. utilize the adverse childhood experience questionnaire in assessing
    16  a patent's health and health risks;
    17    5. ensure access to a  patient's  medical  records  by  the  community
    18  health  team  members  in  a  manner compliant with the Health Insurance
    19  Portability and Accountability Act, 12 V.S.A. § 1612, and  21  V.S.A.  §
    20  516; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 6598                             2

     1    6. meet regularly with the community health team to ensure integration
     2  of a participating patient's care.
     3    §  365-l-2.  Adverse childhood experience questionnaire. Reimbursement
     4  for primary care provided to a Medicaid patient shall be contingent upon
     5  the provider's use of the  adverse  childhood  experience  questionnaire
     6  (ACE-IQ)  for  the  purpose  of assessing the patient's health risks. As
     7  used in this section, "primary care" means health services  provided  by
     8  health care professionals to identify and treat asymptomatic individuals
     9  who have risk factors or preclinical disease, but in whom the disease is
    10  not  clinically  apparent,  including immunizations and screening, coun-
    11  seling, treatment, and medication determined by scientific  evidence  to
    12  be effective in preventing or detecting a condition.
    13    §  2. On or before December 15, 2023, the commissioner of health shall
    14  submit a report to the senate and assembly health committees  containing
    15  recommendations on the following:
    16    (a) whether and how trauma-informed care could be more widely incorpo-
    17  rated into the practice of medicine throughout New York state; and
    18    (b)  whether and how the use of the advance childhood experience ques-
    19  tionnaire and  other  preventive  medical  services  could  be  expanded
    20  throughout New York state.
    21    §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    22  the date upon which it shall have become a law.