New York S 6981: Relates to state aid for home health care to meet community need

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S06981 Summary:

BILL NOS06981A

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SAME ASSAME AS A01493-A

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SPONSORWEBB

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3615, Pub Health L

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Provides for state aid for home health care and hospice services to meet community need.

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BILL NOS06981A

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03/27/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

06/06/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

06/06/2025PRINT NUMBER 6981A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6981--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- 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 public health law, in relation to state aid for home
 health care to meet community need

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds and declares
 2 this necessity to act to further support the state's home health care
 3 policy and goals as set forth in public health law section thirty-six
 4 hundred, current public health law sections thirty-six hundred seven and
 5 thirty-six hundred fifteen providing a mechanism for annual state aid to
 6 certified home health agencies and supplemental to the rate structure,
 7 to meet state and regional home health community services need.
 8 The legislature finds that the changes in the state's aging demograph-
 9 ics, the rising public and medical care system demand for in-home care,
 10 the increasingly complex medical conditions dependent upon such care,
 11 and the associated delivery costs of such services, necessitates the
 12 updating and commensurate funding of the section thirty-six hundred
 13 fifteen state aid mechanism to ensure its intended purpose. Accordingly,
 14 the legislature seeks the amendments provided for in this act to address
 15 home health community need, with targeted assistance to underserved
 16 areas and populations, home health nursing and related staffing, and
 17 requisite technology-supports for service capability, access, and effi-
 18 ciency.
 19 § 2. Section 3615 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 884
 20 of the laws of 1990, subdivision 10 as amended by section 30 of part A
 21 of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
 22 § 3615. State aid to certified home health agencies. 1. State aid
 23 shall be provided to certified home health agencies to assist in devel-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01893-06-5

 S. 6981--A 2

 1 oping and ensuring their capacity to meet community need. Funds for such
 2 aid shall be made available each year in [an amount equal to twenty-five
 3 cents per capita of the population within each health systems agency
 4 region, as established pursuant to article twenty-nine of this chapter,
 5 or two hundred thousand dollars, whichever is greater. Two million five
 6 hundred thousand dollars shall be for the state's share of payments
 7 provided pursuant to subdivision five of section thirty-six hundred
 8 fourteen of this article. The remaining amount shall be for purposes of
 9 providing grants pursuant to this section and sections thirty-six
 10 hundred seven and thirty-six hundred nine of this article] amounts as
 11 may be appropriated and made available therefor, and distributed to
 12 agencies in the form of increased medical assistance rates and/or direct
 13 payments or grants to such agencies, as best maximizes an agency's abil-
 14 ity to receive and utilize funds for the purposes under this section,
 15 and as maximizes, where applicable, federal medical assistance partic-
 16 ipation.
 17 2. [For the purpose funding grants pursuant to sections thirty-six
 18 hundred seven and thirty-six hundred nine of this article and grants
 19 pursuant to this section, the commissioner shall allocate the proportion
 20 of funds among the health sys