S 1967: Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation management brokers.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1967 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, MAYER -- 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 the use of transportation management brokers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of 2 section 365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part 3 LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 (vi) [Responsibility for transportation services provided or arranged 5 for enrollees of] Providers of adult day health care and managed long 6 term care plans issued certificates of authority under section forty- 7 four hundred three-f of the public health law[, not including] may elect 8 to, but shall not be required to, use the services of the transportation 9 management broker. Provided, however, a program designated as a Program 10 of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as authorized by Federal 11 Public law 1053-33, subtitle I of title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of 12 1997[, and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate 13 benefits for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries based 14 on a demonstration by the plan that inclusion of transportation within 15 the benefit package will result in cost efficiencies and quality 16 improvement, shall be transferred to a transportation management broker 17 that has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this para- 18 graph. Providers of adult day health care may elect to, but shall not be 19 required to, use the services of the transportation management broker] 20 shall not be required to use the services of the transportation manage- 21 ment broker. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 23 ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall 24 be subject to the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to 25 subdivision (a) of section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of the laws of 26 2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04138-01-5