New York A 4517: Relates to establishing a program of health care quality innovation and improvement through home care

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A04517 Summary:

BILL NOA04517 

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Add §3623, Pub Health L

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Establishes a program of health care quality innovation and improvement through home care.

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BILL NOA04517 

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02/04/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4517

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to quality innovation
 and improvement through home care

 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 3623 to read as follows:
 3 § 3623. Program for quality innovation and improvement through home
 4 care. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and
 5 subject to appropriated amounts, the commissioner, upon the approval of
 6 the director of the budget, shall provide grants directly, or in the
 7 form of supplemental rate payments, for the purpose of supporting a
 8 program of health care quality innovation and improvement through home
 9 care.
 10 Eligible entities for such payments shall include: certified home
 11 health agencies; long term home health care programs; licensed home care
 12 services agencies; managed long term care plans under section forty-four
 13 hundred three-f of this chapter for initiatives with contracted home
 14 care agencies; and managed care plans under section three hundred
 15 sixty-four-j of the social services law for initiatives with contracted
 16 home care agencies.
 17 2. Such program shall include, but not limited to:
 18 (a) addressing significant public health problems and goals through
 19 home care, including falls prevention, health care disparities, septice-
 20 mia early identification and intervention, cardiovascular health, pres-
 21 sure ulcer prevention, and other;
 22 (b) advances in care management and care transitions through home care
 23 partnership with hospitals, physicians, health plans, behavioral health
 24 providers, nursing homes and/or other sectors, as well as for coordi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05749-01-5

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 1 nation of primary, chronic and behavioral health care service planning,
 2 delivery and care management;
 3 (c) implementation of comprehensive quality measurement and improve-
 4 ment tools in home care, including, but not limited to the integration
 5 of these tools into home care electronic records and reporting systems,
 6 and associated adaptation of software and connectivity to analytical
 7 systems; such tools shall promote and facilitate comprehensive quality
 8 monitoring, improvement and innovation, continuous self-audit, and
 9 priority benchmarking and alignment and of home care with managed care,
 10 hospitals, primary care and integrated care models;
 11 (d) home care agency staff training in quality and specialty care
 12 practice and/or care management techniques;
 13 (e) technology-based approaches to enhance patient care;
 14 (f) population health improvement through population studies, agency
 15 service analytics, staff training in population care coordination, and
 16 other, conducted by home care agencies;
 17 (g) increased incorporation of evidenced based care practices through
 18 adoption and use of clinical guidelines, clinical pathways, and/or other
 19 best practice, by home care agencies; and/or
 20 (h) other initiatives to promote improved patient outcomes, patient
 21 satisfaction, service coordination or access through home care, as the
 22 commissioner may approve.
 23 3. The commissioner, in consultation with representatives of home care
 24 providers, managed care plans and statewide associations representative
 25 of such providers and plans, shall establish a process for provider and
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