3620 – Authorization to Provide an AIDS Home Care Program.
§ 3620. Authorization to provide an AIDS home care program. 1. An AIDS home care program may be provided only by a provider of a long term home health care program possessing a valid operating certificate issued under this article or an AIDS center as defined in accordance with regulations promulgated by the commissioner. 2. […]
3621 – Payment of Claims.
§ 3621. Payment of claims. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the provisions of section thirty-two hundred twenty-four-a of the insurance law, and regulations thereunder, shall apply to claims for payment submitted by a licensed home care services agency, certified home health agency, long term home health care program, or fiscal intermediary operating under section […]
3622 – Separability.
§ 3622. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part thereof […]
3614-E – Electronic Payment of Claims.
§ 3614-e. Electronic payment of claims. The payment of claims submitted under contracts or agreements with insurers under the medical assistance program for home and community-based long-term care services provided under this article, by fiscal intermediaries operating pursuant to section three hundred sixty-five-f of the social services law, and by residential health care facilities operating […]
3614-F – Home Care Minimum Wage Increase.
§ 3614-f. Home care minimum wage increase. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this section: (a) “Home care aide” shall have the same meaning as defined in section thirty-six hundred fourteen-c of this article. (b) “Home care worker wage adjustment” shall mean a supplemental amount of wages equal to the rate of change in the […]
3615 – State Aid to Certified Home Health Agencies.
* § 3615. State aid to certified home health agencies. 1. State aid shall be provided to certified home health agencies to assist in developing and ensuring their capacity to meet community need. Funds for such aid shall be made available each year in an amount equal to twenty-five cents per capita of the population […]
3616 – Provision of Certified Home Health Agency Services, Long Term Home Health Care Programs and AIDS Home Care Programs.
§ 3616. Provision of certified home health agency services, long term home health care programs and AIDS home care programs. 1. A long term home health care program shall be provided only to those patients who are medically eligible for placement in a hospital or residential health care facility. An AIDS home care program shall […]
3616-A – Quality Assurance.
§ 3616-a. Quality assurance. 1. Every certified home health agency, licensed home care services agency, long term home health care program and AIDS home care program is required to establish a quality assurance program which shall objectively and systematically monitor and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and services provided by the agency or […]
3617 – Respite Projects.
§ 3617. Respite projects. Certified home health agencies shall be permitted, with the prior approval of the commissioner in consultation with the director of the state office for the aging, to participate in respite projects pursuant to section two hundred eight of the elder law. The commissioner, in consultation with the director of the state […]
3618 – Continuation of Existing Home Health Agencies.
§ 3618. Continuation of existing home health agencies. Any home health agency which, on March thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, possessed a valid certificate of approval issued under the provisions of article twenty-eight of this chapter shall be deemed a certified home health agency and such certificate of approval shall be deemed valid under the provisions […]