Bill Text: NY S01198 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to do a comprehensive assessment of the existing methodology used to determine payment for early intervention screenings, evaluations, services and service coordination; directs recommendations on reimbursement methodology as well as needs under the program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-11-22 - VETOED MEMO.49 [S01198 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1198

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  RIVERA,  MANNION, MYRIE -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabil-
          ities

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  a  review  and
          recommendations  of  reimbursement adequacy and other matters relating
          to early intervention

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2559-c to read as follows:
     3    § 2559-c. Early intervention rate adequacy review. 1. The commissioner
     4  shall review the rates of reimbursement made through  the  early  inter-
     5  vention program for rate adequacy. The review shall include:
     6    (a)  a  comprehensive  assessment  of the existing methodology used to
     7  determine  payment  for  early  intervention  screenings,   evaluations,
     8  services and service coordination, including but not limited to:
     9    (i)  analysis  of early intervention rules, regulations, and policies,
    10  including policies, processes, and revenue sources;
    11    (ii) analysis of costs to providers participating in the early  inter-
    12  vention  program,  including time and cost of travel, service provision,
    13  and administrative activities; and
    14    (iii) analysis by discipline and labor region  of  salary  levels  for
    15  individuals providing early intervention services compared to the salary
    16  levels for individuals in the same disciplines and labor regions provid-
    17  ing services other than in the early intervention program;
    18    (b)  recommendations for maintaining or changing reimbursement method-
    19  ologies. Recommendations under this paragraph shall be  consistent  with
    20  federal law and shall include recommendations for appropriate changes in
    21  state  law and regulations. The recommendations shall consider appropri-
    22  ate payment methodologies and rates for in-person and  telehealth  early
    23  intervention  evaluations  and  services  to  address barriers in timely

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03582-01-3
        S. 1198                             2

     1  service provision as well as racial  and  socioeconomic  disparities  in
     2  access,  with  consideration  of  factors including, but not limited to,
     3  payment for bilingual services,  travel  time,  geographic  variability,
     4  access  to and cost of technology, cost of living, and other barriers to
     5  timely service provision;
     6    (c) the projected number of children who will need early  intervention
     7  services in the next five years disaggregated by county;
     8    (d) the workforce needed to provide services in the next five years to
     9  all  children eligible for early intervention services, disaggregated by
    10  county; and
    11    (e) opportunities for stakeholder input on current rate methodologies.
    12    2. Within one year after the  effective  date  of  this  section,  the
    13  commissioner  shall  submit a report of the findings and recommendations
    14  under this section to the  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the
    15  senate,  the  speaker  of the assembly, and the chairs of the senate and
    16  assembly committees on health, and shall post the report on the  depart-
    17  ment's website.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.