Creates a ten year live kidney donor follow-up study which includes a one thousand dollars per year stipend for participants; provides two thousand dollars for all kidney donors for health-related expenses.
Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter; provides that the costs of such screenings shall be covered by the state.
Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
Establishes standards for the evacuation of individuals with disabilities from high-rise buildings during an emergency; provides factors to be considered in the development of such standards.
Requires the office of mental health to identify information and training programs relating to the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder for military veterans; requires the office of mental health to publish on their website information and links to the identified relevant training programs.
Relates to a four-year demonstration project to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities; removes provisions regarding a joint labor-management nursing home staffing workgroup to review and assess the impact of such demonstration project.
Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for diagnosis, treatment, or appropriate management of, or ongoing monitoring to guide treatment decisions for, a covered person's disease or condition when the test has recognized efficacy and appropriateness for such purposes.
Establishes the New York state adult cystic fibrosis program which consists of administrative support services for the provision of financial assistance for services such as prescription drug costs, device costs, medical care services, behavioral health services, and insurance premiums for the treatment of cystic fibrosis disease and its conditions.
Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas for the purposes of Medicaid reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients.
Requires health care plans and payors to have a minimum of twelve and one-half percent of their total expenditures on physical and mental health annually be for primary care services.
Directs the office of mental health to establish programs for the training and development of persons capable of providing coaching and support to individuals under treatment plans developed by licensed mental health practitioners, including but not limited to a process of issuing, either directly or through contract, credentials for qualified mental health associates.