New York S 3768: Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official

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S03768 Summary:

BILL NOS03768 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02442

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SPONSORSANDERS

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, FAHY, MATTERA, OBERACKER, STEC

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§365-h & 368-a, Soc Serv L

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Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official including emergency medical transportation by an ambulance service certified under article 30 of the public health law; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a reimbursement methodology to ensure providers are reimbursed.

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BILL NOS03768 

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01/29/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/13/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3768

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 29, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursement of
 transportation costs for emergency care

 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 365-h of the social services law,
 2 as amended by section 20 of part B of chapter 109 of the laws of 2010,
 3 is amended and a new subdivision 7 is added to read as follows:
 4 1. The local social services official and, subject to the provisions
 5 of subdivision four of this section, the commissioner of health shall
 6 have responsibility for prior authorizing transportation of eligible
 7 persons and for limiting the provision of such transportation to those
 8 recipients and circumstances where such transportation is essential,
 9 medically necessary and appropriate to obtain medical care, services or
 10 supplies otherwise available under this title. However, prior authori-
 11 zation shall not be required for transportation to obtain emergency
 12 care, including emergency medical transportation by an ambulance service
 13 certified under article thirty of the public health law.
 14 7. With respect to transportation and care provided to an eligible
 15 person by an ambulance service certified under article thirty of the
 16 public health law, the commissioner of the department of health shall
 17 establish a reimbursement methodology that ensures that providers are
 18 reimbursed at the greater of the medical assistance rate in effect on
 19 the effective date of this subdivision, or the medicare allowable charge
 20 (pursuant to title XVIII of the federal social security act) for such
 21 transportation and care. The amount of increase in reimbursement
 22 produced by this methodology over what would otherwise have been paid
 23 shall be phased in as follows: in the state fiscal year in which the
 24 provisions of this subdivision become law, thirty-three percent; in the
 25 following state fiscal year, sixty-six percent; and in the second state

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00294-01-5

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 1 fiscal year following the state fiscal year in which the provisions of
 2 this subdivision become law and all subsequent fiscal years, one hundred
 3 percent.
 4 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 368-a of the social services law is
 5 amended by adding a new paragraph (aa) to read as follows:
 6 (aa) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or any
 7 other provision of law to the contrary, one hundred percent of the
 8 amount expended for medical assistance under this title for transporta-
 9 tion and care furnished under subdivision four of section three hundred
 10 sixty-five-h of this title on or after April first, two thousand twen-
 11 ty-five, after first deducting therefrom any federal funds properly
 12 received or to be received on account thereof.
 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 14 the date on which it shall have become a law, provided that the amend-
 15 ments to section 365-h of the social serv