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A02735 Summary:

BILL NOA02735 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01189

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SPONSORStirpe

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COSPNSRSeawright, Sayegh, Hevesi, Shrestha, Rosenthal, Colton, Weprin, Kim, Davila, Kelles, Gallagher,
 Carroll R, Gonzalez-Rojas, Romero, Kay, Simon, Zaccaro, Conrad, Berger, De Los Santos, Simone,
 Eichenstein, Burdick, Yeger, Jackson, Rajkumar, Carroll P, Brabenec, Griffin, Chang, McMahon,
 Eachus, Reyes, Burroughs, Lupardo, McDonough, Mamdani, Tapia, Gandolfo, Raga, Simpson, Steck

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §365-f, rpld §365-f sub 4-a ¶(a) sub¶¶ (ii-a), (ii-b) & (ii-c), ¶(b), sub 4-a-1, Soc Serv L

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Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries.

Go to top A02735 Actions:

BILL NOA02735 

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01/22/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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Go to topA02735 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2735

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the licensure of
 fiscal intermediaries, and to repeal certain provisions of such law
 relating thereto

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 4-a of
 2 section 365-f of the social services law, as amended by section 1 of
 3 part HH of chapter 57 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as
 4 follows:
 5 (i) "[Statewide fiscal] Fiscal intermediary" means an entity that
 6 provides fiscal intermediary services and has a contract for providing
 7 such services with [the]:
 8 (A) a local department of social services;
 9 (B) a health [and is selected through] maintenance organization certi-
 10 fied pursuant to article forty-four of the [procurement process
 11 described in paragraph (b)] public health law; or
 12 (C) an accountable care organization certified pursuant to article
 13 twenty-nine-E of [this subdivision] the public health law, or an inte-
 14 grated delivery system that is composed primarily of health care provid-
 15 ers and recognized by the department as a performing provider system
 16 under the delivery system reform incentive payment program.
 17 § 2. Subparagraphs (ii-a), (ii-b), and (ii-c) of paragraph (a) and
 18 paragraph (b) of subdivision 4-a of section 365-f of the social services
 19 law are REPEALED.
 20 § 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4-a of section 365-f of the social
 21 services law, as added by section 1-a of part K of chapter 57 of the
 22 laws of 2018 and relettered by section 2 of part G of chapter 57 of the
 23 laws of 2019, subparagraph (i) as amended by section 5 of part G of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04005-01-5

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 1 chapter 57 of the laws of 2019, is relettered paragraph (b) and amended
 2 and two new paragraphs (c) and (d) are added to read as follows:
 3 (b) (i) The commissioner shall require [a] each fiscal intermediary,
 4 including but not limited to fiscal intermediaries that contract with a
 5 managed care program, as defined by paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
 6 section three hundred sixty-four-j of this article, or an accountable
 7 care organization certified pursuant to article twenty-nine-E of the
 8 public health law, to report annually on:
 9 (A) the direct care and administrative costs of personal assistance
 10 services as accounted for by the fiscal intermediary;
 11 (B) the number of members serviced;
 12 (C) the fiscal intermediary's service area;
 13 (D) the number of personal assistants employed by consumers, including
 14 the number of hours worked by each such personal assistant, and period
 15 of employment in personal care of each such personal assistant, and each
 16 such personal assistant's relationship with the consumer;
 17 (E) the number of authorized hours per consumer serviced;
 18 (F) the number of hours of service billed per consumer;
 19 (G) the self-directing status of the consumer; and
 20 (H) any other