New York S 10296: Establishes minimum compensation standards for the reimbursement of home health agencies and persons employed thereof

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S10296 Summary:

BILL NOS10296 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04796

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SPONSORCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §368-a, Soc Serv L; amd §13.15, Ment Hyg L

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Establishes minimum compensation standards for the reimbursement of home health agencies and persons employed thereof; directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to develop methodologies to determine such minimum compensation standard.

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BILL NOS10296 

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05/11/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 10296

 IN SENATE

 May 11, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the social services law and the mental hygiene law, in
 relation to establishing a minimum compensation standard for certain
 home health aides

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 368-a of the social services law
 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (g-1) to read as follows:
 3 (g-1) Notwithstanding paragraph (g) of this subdivision, section three
 4 hundred sixty-four-j of this title or any other provision of law, a
 5 reimbursement for home health services provided for in accordance with
 6 paragraph (d) of subdivision two of section three hundred sixty-five-a
 7 of this title by an individual or shared aide provided by an approved
 8 home health agency when such services are determined to be cost effec-
 9 tive and appropriate to meet the recipient's needs for assistance shall
 10 be increased to a minimum compensation standard. The commissioner, in
 11 consultation with the commissioner of the office for people with devel-
 12 opmental disabilities, shall develop methodologies to determine such
 13 minimum compensation standard.
 14 § 2. Section 13.15 of the mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 978
 15 of the laws of 1977, the section heading as amended by chapter 168 of
 16 the laws of 2010, subdivision (a) as amended by chapter 37 of the laws
 17 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
 18 § 13.15 Programs of the office for people with developmental disabili-
 19 ties.
 20 (a) The commissioner shall plan, promote, establish, develop, coordi-
 21 nate, evaluate, and conduct programs and services of prevention, diagno-
 22 sis, examination, care, treatment, rehabilitation, training, and
 23 research for the benefit of individuals with developmental disabilities.
 24 Such programs shall include but not be limited to in-patient, out-pa-
 25 tient, partial hospitalization, day care, emergency, rehabilitative, and
 26 other appropriate treatments and services. [He] Such commissioner shall
 27 take all actions that are necessary, desirable, or proper to implement

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07248-01-5

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 1 the purposes of this chapter and to carry out the purposes and objec-
 2 tives of the office within the amounts made available therefor by appro-
 3 priation, grant, gift, devise, bequest, or allocation from the mental
 4 health services fund established under section ninety-seven-f of the
 5 state finance law.
 6 (b) The activities described in subdivision (a) of this section may be
 7 undertaken in cooperation and agreement with other offices, departments
 8 or agencies of the state, local or federal government, or with other
 9 organizations and individuals.
 10 (c) The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health,
 11 shall develop minimum compensation standards for the reimbursement of
 12 home health agencies and persons employed thereof.
 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 14 it shall have become a law.

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