(a) Only those certified operators of adult homes and enriched housing programs that provide services that are consistent with the needs of each resident, meet the standards governing the operation of such facilities in accordance with the provisions of article seven of the social services law, and provide quality care shall be considered by the department as eligible for licensure.

(b) An operator that has received current official written notice from the department of social services of any enforcement action pursuant to section four hundred sixty-d of the social services law shall not be eligible for such certification.

(c) Such current enforcement action, when resolved to the satisfaction of the commissioner of social services, shall not itself preclude an otherwise eligible applicant from licensure approval but shall be considered by the department in determining the character, competence, and standing in the community of the applicant pursuant to subdivision four of this section.

(d) If the department receives notice from the department of social services that a certified operator of an adult home or enriched housing program that is licensed as a limited home care services agency has received official written notice from the department of social services of a proposed enforcement action taken pursuant to section four hundred sixty-d of the social services law, the department shall review the delivery of home care services to determine whether such agency is meeting all applicable regulations and standards. * NB Expires June 30, 2021 * 12. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the commissioner shall have the authority to limit the number of adult homes and enriched housing programs eligible for licensure under this section. * NB Expires June 30, 2021 13. The commissioner shall charge to applicants for the licensure of home care services agencies an application fee of two thousand dollars. All fees pursuant to this section shall be payable to the department of health for deposit into the special revenue funds - other, miscellaneous special revenue fund - 339, certificate of need account. 14. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law and subject to the availability of federal financial participation, for periods on and after April first, two thousand fourteen, the commissioner is authorized to make temporary periodic lump-sum Medicaid payments to licensed home care service agencies ("LHCSA") principally engaged in providing home health services to Medicaid patients, in accordance with the following:

(a) Eligible LHCSA providers shall include:

(i) providers undergoing closure;

(ii) providers impacted by the closure of other health care providers;

(iii) providers subject to mergers, acquisitions, consolidations or restructuring;

(iv) providers impacted by the merger, acquisition, consolidation or restructuring of other health care providers; or

(v) providers seeking to ensure that access to care is maintained.

(b) Providers seeking Medicaid payments under this subdivision shall demonstrate through submission of a written proposal to the commissioner that the additional resources provided by such Medicaid payments will achieve one or more of the following:

(i) protect or enhance access to care;

(ii) protect or enhance quality of care;

(iii) improve the cost effectiveness of the delivery of health care services; or

(iv) otherwise protect or enhance the health care delivery system, as determined by the commissioner.

(c) (i) Such written proposal shall be submitted to the commissioner at least sixty days prior to the requested commencement of such Medicaid payments and shall include a proposed budget to achieve the goals of the proposal. Any Medicaid payments issued pursuant to this subdivision shall be made over a specified period of time, as determined by the commissioner, of up to three years. At the end of the specified timeframe such payments shall cease. The commissioner may establish, as a condition of receiving such Medicaid payments, benchmarks and goals to be achieved in conformity with the provider's written proposal as approved by the commissioner and may also require that the provider submit such periodic reports concerning the achievement of such benchmarks and goals as the commissioner deems necessary. Failure to achieve satisfactory progress, as determined by the commissioner, in accomplishing such benchmarks and goals shall be a basis for ending the provider's Medicaid payments prior to the end of the specified timeframe.

(ii) The commissioner may require that applications submitted pursuant to this subdivision be submitted in response to and in accordance with a Request For Applications or a Request For Proposals issued by the commissioner.