Bill Text: NY S05956 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Allows physician assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of Medicaid managed care plans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2022-12-09 - VETOED MEMO.97 [S05956 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05956-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5956--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 24, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 allowing physi- cian assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of Medicaid managed care plans The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 1 of section 364-j of the 2 social services law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of 1996, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (f) "Primary care practitioner". A physician, physician assistant, or 5 nurse practitioner providing primary care to and management of the 6 medical and health care services of a participant served by a managed 7 care provider. 8 § 2. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 9 364-j of the social services law, as amended by section 14 of part C of 10 chapter 58 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows: 11 (i) a managed care provider shall arrange for access to and enrollment 12 of primary care practitioners and other medical services providers. Each 13 managed care provider shall possess the expertise and sufficient 14 resources to assure the delivery of quality medical care to participants 15 in an appropriate and timely manner and may include physicians, physi- 16 cian assistants, nurse practitioners, county health departments, provid- 17 ers of comprehensive health service plans licensed pursuant to article 18 forty-four of the public health law, and hospitals and diagnostic and 19 treatment centers licensed pursuant to article twenty-eight of the 20 public health law or otherwise authorized by law to offer comprehensive 21 health services or facilities licensed pursuant to articles sixteen, 22 thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10609-02-1S. 5956--A 2 1 § 3. This act shall become effective immediately; provided however, 2 that the amendments to section 364-j of the social services law made by 3 sections one and two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such 4 section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
