4012-A - Hospice Supplemental Financial Assistance Program for Persons With Special Needs.

NY Pub Health L § 4012-A (2019) (N/A)
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(a) utilize such additional payment to provide services to persons with special needs;

(b) shall undertake reasonable efforts to maintain financial support from public and community contributed funding sources;

(c) shall make every reasonable effort to collect payments for services from third party insurance payers, governmental payers and self-paying patients; and

(d) shall establish a reasonable relationship between costs and charges, or establish charges at approximate costs. 4. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of social services, is authorized to submit for approval and adoption by the state hospital review and planning council such regulations as necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section. 5. The commissioner shall establish a rate for persons receiving care in a hospice residence, and may by regulation specify additional standards necessary to ensure that the provisions of this section promote medical assistance recipients access to hospice residence care including; (a) that such recipients are otherwise unable to appropriately receive hospice care in their own home; and (b) the provision of supplemental financial assistance will promote the efficient delivery of appropriate, quality, cost-effective services.