New York S 6448: Relates to creating a nursing home resident quality and safety study

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S06448 Summary:

BILL NOS06448 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00370

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2804-b, Pub Health L

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Relates to creating a nursing home resident quality and safety study to study the implementation of a globally recognized frailty index score methodology in nursing homes in New York state.

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BILL NOS06448 

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03/14/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6448

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to creating a nursing
 home resident quality and safety study; and providing for the repeal
 of such provisions upon expiration thereof

 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 2804-b to read as follows:
 3 § 2804-b. Nursing home resident quality and safety study. 1. Defi-
 4 nitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall
 5 have the following meanings:
 6 (a) "Frailty index" means a globally recognized methodology used to
 7 measure the health status of elderly individuals.
 8 (b) "Frailty score" means a score given to an individual analyzed
 9 using the frailty index.
 10 (c) "The study" means the nursing home resident quality and safety
 11 study conducted pursuant to this section.
 12 (d) "Minimum data set" means a federally mandated process for clinical
 13 assessment of all residents in Medicare or Medicaid certified nursing
 14 homes.
 15 (e) "The demonstration team" means a private business appointed by the
 16 commissioner that has the resources and technology available to collect
 17 minimum data set data for all nursing homes in New York state for analy-
 18 sis, and to perform all tasks necessary for the completion of the study.
 19 (f) "Nursing home" or "facility" means a nursing home as defined by
 20 section twenty-eight hundred one of this article.
 21 (g) "Applicant" means a nursing home that has submitted an application
 22 to participate in the study.
 23 (h) "Participating facility" means an applicant that has been approved
 24 be the commissioner to participate in the study.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00191-01-5

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 1 (i) "Control group" means the group of participating facilities acting
 2 as a control during the study by not implementing the use of frailty
 3 index methodology.
 4 (j) "Intervention group" means the group of participating facilities
 5 implementing the use of frailty index methodology.
 6 (k) "Residential health care facility quality incentive payment
 7 program" means the program established pursuant to section twenty-eight
 8 hundred one-f of this article.
 9 2. Nursing home resident quality and safety study established. The
 10 commissioner shall undertake a study on the adoption of the frailty
 11 index methodology to improve the quality of care in nursing homes,
 12 achieve better outcomes for nursing home residents, and help New York
 13 state more appropriately direct payments to providers based on quality
 14 performance, pursuant to this section.
 15 3. Application and acceptance for participation. (a) The commissioner
 16 shall make available a method for nursing homes to apply for partic-
 17 ipation in the study. The study shall receive such applicants on a
 18 first-come first-serve basis.
 19 (b) The commissioner shall accept an equal number of nursing home
 20 applicants for participation in the study from each department region.
 21 (c) Applicants accepted for participation in the study shall, at the
 22 time of submission of an application, have an occupancy rate of seventy
 23 percent or greater.
 24 (d) At least twenty percent of applicants accepted for participation
 25 in the study shall be a non-profit or p