Provides that low-income subsidy data transmitted from the social security administration to local departments of social services in accordance with section 1144(c)(3) of the federal social security act shall be treated as an application for the medicare savings program, without requiring submission of another application.
Requires the commissioner of health to develop a sustainability plan for the state university of New York downstate medical center; provides that such sustainability plan shall not limit or alter the rights of employees pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement.
Relates to the performance standards that must be met by managed long term care plans; enables managed long term care plans operated by organizations that also operate an Institutional Special Needs Plan (ISNP) or a PACE program, but not a Medicare Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan, to continue to meet managed long term care plans performance standards.
Establishes through the department of health, in conjunction with the office of addiction services and supports, a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds.
Includes information on congenital heart defect births in the informational leaflets required to be given to maternity patients by hospitals and birth centers.
Expands the residential health care for children with medical fragility in transition to young adults and young adults with medical fragility demonstration program.
Relates to audits conducted by the office of Medicaid inspector general detecting ministerial or clerical errors that generate an overpayment to a vendor providing non-emergency medical transportation services.
Provides that such rates of payment shall be updated to reflect the most current mean price for free-standing residential health care facilities with less than three hundred beds each time that the cost basis of residential health care facility rates is updated.