Bill Text: NY S07281 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires managed care programs to establish procedures to assure participant access to medical assistance dental services to which they are otherwise entitled, other than through the managed care provider.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-17 - PRINT NUMBER 7281A [S07281 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S07281-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
March 29, 2010
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Introduced by Sens. SCHNEIDERMAN, STEWART-COUSINS -- 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 requiring a
managed care program to establish procedures through which partic-
ipants will be assured access to medical assistance dental services to
which they are otherwise entitled, other than through the managed care
provider
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of
2 section 364-j of the social services law, as amended by section 14 of
3 part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2004, clause (E) as added and clause
4 (F) as relettered by chapter 37 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
5 as follows:
6 (iii) under a managed care program, not all managed care providers
7 must be required to provide the same set of medical assistance services.
8 The managed care program shall establish procedures through which
9 participants will be assured access to all medical assistance services
10 to which they are otherwise entitled, other than through the managed
11 care provider, where:
12 (A) the service is not reasonably available directly or indirectly
13 from the managed care provider,
14 (B) it is necessary because of emergency or geographic unavailability,
15 or
16 (C) the services provided are family planning services; or
17 (D) the services PROVIDED are dental services [and are provided by a
18 diagnostic and treatment center licensed under article twenty-eight of
19 the public health law which is affiliated with an academic dental center
20 and which has been granted an operating certificate pursuant to article
21 twenty-eight of the public health law to provide such dental services.
22 Any diagnostic and treatment center providing dental services pursuant
23 to this clause shall prior to June first of each year report to the
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly
2 on the following: the total number of visits made by medical assistance
3 recipients during the immediately preceding calendar year; the number of
4 visits made by medical assistance recipients during the immediately
5 preceding calendar year by recipients who were enrolled in managed care
6 programs; the number of visits made by medical assistance recipients
7 during the immediately preceding calendar year by recipients who were
8 enrolled in managed care programs that provide dental benefits as a
9 covered service; and the number of visits made by the uninsured during
10 the immediately preceding calendar year]; or
11 (E) the services are optometric services, as defined in article one
12 hundred forty-three of the education law, and are provided by a diagnos-
13 tic and treatment center licensed under article twenty-eight of the
14 public health law which is affiliated with the college of optometry of
15 the state university of New York and which has been granted an operating
16 certificate pursuant to article twenty-eight of the public health law to
17 provide such optometric services. Any diagnostic and treatment center
18 providing optometric services pursuant to this clause shall prior to
19 June first of each year report to the governor, temporary president of
20 the senate and speaker of the assembly on the following: the total
21 number of visits made by medical assistance recipients during the imme-
22 diately preceding calendar year; the number of visits made by medical
23 assistance recipients during the immediately preceding calendar year by
24 recipients who were enrolled in managed care programs; the number of
25 visits made by medical assistance recipients during the immediately
26 preceding calendar year by recipients who were enrolled in managed care
27 programs that provide optometric benefits as a covered service; and the
28 number of visits made by the uninsured during the immediately preceding
29 calendar year; or
30 (F) other services as defined by the commissioner of health.
31 S 2. The department of health shall analyze and compare expenditures,
32 utilization rates and utilization patterns for dental services (along
33 with any related effects on expenditures, rates and patterns for other
34 services) for medical assistance recipients; for the period during which
35 medical assistance reimbursement for such services was included in the
36 state rate of payment for medicaid managed care and for the period
37 beginning with the date on which medical assistance reimbursement for
38 such services was no longer included in the state rate of payment for
39 medicaid managed care.
40 The department of health shall include in its analyses and compar-
41 isons, the expenditures, utilization rates and utilization patterns for
42 dental services (along with any related effects on expenditures, rates
43 and patterns for other services) paid for by private third-party payors.
44 The department of health shall report its findings to the governor,
45 the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly by
46 December first, two thousand eleven.
47 S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
48 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to
49 subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 364-j of
50 the social services law made by section one of this act shall not affect
51 the repeal of such section, as provided by section 11 of chapter 710 of
52 the laws of 1988, as amended, and shall be deemed to be repealed there-
53 with.
