New York S 7705: Creates the office of older adult workforce development within the office for the aging

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S07705 Summary:

BILL NOS07705A

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SAME ASSAME AS A04162-B

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SPONSORRYAN C

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3614, Pub Health L; amd §364-j, Soc Serv L

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Relates to Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing; requires DOH to publish a private duty rate schedule.

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BILL NOS07705A

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04/30/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1392

05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/09/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

01/09/2026PRINT NUMBER 7705A

02/04/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7705--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
 the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social services law, in
 relation to rates of reimbursement for private duty nursing

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 3614 of the public health law is
 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
 3 (d) For enrollees covered by Medicaid as of October first, two thou-
 4 sand twenty-six under a payment rate methodology agreement negotiated
 5 with a licensed home care services provider, including but not limited
 6 to services provided through licensed home care services agencies,
 7 payments for all hourly home care services provided through private duty
 8 nursing, including but not limited to nursing services, provided to
 9 patients eligible for medical assistance pursuant to title eleven of
 10 article five of the social services law made by organizations operating
 11 in accordance with the provisions of article forty-four of this chapter
 12 or by health maintenance organizations organized and operating in
 13 accordance with article forty-three of the insurance law shall, at a
 14 minimum, be at a benchmark rate which is to be the fee-for-service rate
 15 calculated pursuant to this chapter and as in effect at the time such
 16 services were provided.
 17 § 2. Section 364-j of the social services law is amended by adding a
 18 new subdivision 41 to read as follows:
 19 41. For enrollees covered by Medicaid as of October first, two thou-
 20 sand twenty-six under a payment rate methodology agreement negotiated
 21 with a licensed home care services provider, including but not limited
 22 to services provided through licensed home care services agencies,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03865-07-5

 S. 7705--A 2

 1 payments for all hourly home care services provided through private duty
 2 nursing, including but not limited to nursing services, provided to
 3 patients eligible for medical assistance under this title made by organ-
 4 izations operating in accordance with the provisions of article forty-
 5 four of the public health law or by health maintenance organizations
 6 organized and operating in accordance with article forty-three of the
 7 insurance law shall, at a minimum, be the rates of payment that would be
 8 paid for such patients pursuant to subdivision eleven of section thir-
 9 ty-six hundred fourteen of the public health law.
 10 § 3. Effective October 1, 2026, payments for private duty nursing
 11 services shall be no less than eighty percent of the appropriate
 12 CHAMPUS/TRICARE maximum allowable charge based on the New York locality.
 13 For purposes of implementation, the appropriate CHAMPUS/TRICARE maximum
 14 allowable charge shall be the CHAMPUS/TRICARE maximum allowable charge
 15 in effect as of April 1 of the state fiscal year in which the services
 16 are rendered. The department of health shall pu