Bill Text: NY A08916 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 13-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-06 - reported referred to ways and means [A08916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08916-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8916--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ABINANTI, THIELE, D'URSO, JAFFEE, RA, MORINELLO
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred  to
          the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing, in
          certain cases, the provision of in-home private duty nursing  services
          to a recipient of medical assistance by a relative who is a registered
          professional nurse
          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 a new  section
     2  365-o to read as follows:
     3    §  365-o.  Provision  of  in-home private duty nursing services by the
     4  relative of a recipient. Upon application or request to the commissioner
     5  by a recipient of medical assistance, or his or  her  representative  or
     6  guardian,  who  has  been  approved for the provision of in-home private
     7  duty nursing, the commissioner  may  authorize  the  provision  of  such
     8  private  duty nursing by an adult relative of such recipient, other than
     9  a spouse of the recipient,  who  is  a  registered  professional  nurse.
    10  Reimbursement  for  private nursing services provided in accordance with
    11  this section shall be at  the  rate  paid  for  the  provision  of  such
    12  services by a licensed practical nurse.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11506-05-8