New York A 6367: Provides total disability benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers for injuries sustained on or after July 1, 2017

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A06367 Summary:

BILL NOA06367 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORButtenschon

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COSPNSRCruz, Jackson, Williams

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§4406-c & 2801-a, Pub Health L; amd §3224-a, Ins L; amd §§1676 & 1680, Pub Auth L

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Requires contracts with home care service providers to provide sufficient resources to ensure compensation to a qualified workforce providing high quality care; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care facilities to finance health care reform efforts.

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BILL NOA06367 

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03/04/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6367

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 4, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, CRUZ, JACKSON, WILLIAMS -- read once
 and referred to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, the insurance law and the public
 authorities law, in relation to payments to home care services provid-
 ers and authorizing the commissioner of health to establish a program
 to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care to
 finance health care reform efforts

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

 1 Section 1. Section 4406-c of the public health law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
 3 14. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, contracts with
 4 certified home health agencies, long term home health care programs,
 5 licensed home care services programs or fiscal intermediaries operating
 6 pursuant to section three hundred sixty-five-f of the social services
 7 law to provide home care aide services as defined in section thirty-six
 8 hundred fourteen-c of this chapter, or consumer directed personal
 9 assistance services as authorized pursuant to section three hundred
 10 sixty-five-f of the social services law shall at a minimum ensure that
 11 the resources made available by such contracts shall support compen-
 12 sation for persons providing such home care aide services and consumer
 13 directed personal assistance services to ensure the retention of a qual-
 14 ified workforce capable of providing high quality care to recipients of
 15 such services consistent with the provisions of such section.
 16 § 2. Subsection (a) of section 3224-a of the insurance law, as amended
 17 by chapter 237 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 18 (a) Except in a case where the obligation of an insurer or an organ-
 19 ization or corporation licensed or certified pursuant to article forty-
 20 three or forty-seven of this chapter or article forty-four of the public
 21 health law to pay a claim submitted by a policyholder or person covered
 22 under such policy ("covered person") or make a payment to a health care

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10353-01-5

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 1 provider is not reasonably clear, or when there is a reasonable basis
 2 supported by specific information available for review by the super-
 3 intendent that such claim or bill for health care services rendered was
 4 submitted fraudulently, such insurer or organization or corporation
 5 shall pay the claim to a policyholder or covered person or make a
 6 payment to a health care provider within thirty days of receipt of a
 7 claim or bill for services rendered that is transmitted via the internet
 8 or electronic mail, or forty-five days of receipt of a claim or bill for
 9 services rendered that is submitted by other means, such as paper or
 10 facsimile. Provided, however, any payment for services to health care
 11 providers licensed under article thirty-six of the public health law or
 12 fiscal intermediaries operating pursuant to section three hundred
 13 sixty-five-f of the social services law shall be paid within fifteen
 14 days of the receipt of a claim or a bill for services rendered during
 15 the t