Title SOS, Social Services

§ 358. Federal temporary assistance for needy families block grant.\n1. The department shall submit the plan pursuant to title IV-A of the\nfederal social security act. The state's program under title IV-A shall\nbe entitled "Family Assistance", and benefits under the state plan…

§ 358-a. Dependent children in foster care. (1) Initiation of judicial\nproceeding. (a) A social services official who accepts or proposes to\naccept the custody and guardianship of a child by means of an instrument\nexecuted pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred e…

* § 358-b. Limitations on state reimbursement for foster care. In the\nevent that a petition for approval of an instrument and the transfer of\nthe custody and guardianship or care and custody of a child is filed\nwithin thirty days following removal of the child from his home a…

§ 358-c. Rules of court. The administrative board of the judicial\nconference shall prepare, by August first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-three, rules of court for the efficient and just administration\nof the judicial proceedings authorized by section three hundred\nfifty-eight-a…

§ 36. Studies. The department shall, in so far as available\nappropriations will permit, study and collect information in relation to\n (a) the number and conditions of persons who lack or are threatened\nwith the deprivation of the necessaries of life, or seek, or are\nreceivin…

§ 36-a. Department research and demonstration projects. 1. The\ndepartment is authorized to sponsor, conduct and participate in research\nand demonstration projects designed to ascertain and eliminate the\ncauses of dependency and to rehabilitate recipients of public assistance\…

§ 36-b. Local flexibility incentive pilot program. 1. The\ndepartment, in cooperation with the department of labor, is authorized\nto establish the local flexibility incentive pilot program to enable\nsocial services districts or groups of social services districts, at\nlocal op…

* § 36-c. Savings plan for the city of New York. 1. Notwithstanding\nany other provision of law to the contrary, in any social services\ndistrict with a city having a population of five million or more, the\nsocial services district shall conduct a demonstration project as set\n…

§ 360. Real property of legally responsible relatives. The ownership\nof real property by an applicant or applicants, recipient or recipients\nwho is or are legally responsible relatives of the child or children for\nwhose benefit the application is made or the aid is granted, w…

§ 363. Declaration of objects. Medical assistance for needy persons\nis hereby declared to be a matter of public concern and a necessity in\npromoting the public health and welfare and for promoting the state's\ngoal of making available to everyone, regardless of race, age, nati…

§ 363-a. Federal aid; state plan. 1. The department of health shall\nsubmit and maintain a plan for medical assistance, as required by title\nXIX, or any successor title, of the federal social security act, to the\nfederal department of health and human services for approval pur…

§ 363-b. Agreements for federal determination of eligibility of aged,\nblind and disabled persons for medical assistance. 1. In order to\navoid costly, duplicative administrative responsibility, the department\non behalf of the state may, with the approval of the director of the…

§ 363-c. Medicaid management. 1. The commissioner of the department\nperiodically shall convene, but not less than quarterly and no more than\nmonthly, meetings of the directors and commissioners of all state\nagencies and departments receiving general fund appropriations for th…

§ 363-d. Provider compliance program. 1. The legislature finds that\nmedical assistance providers may be able to detect and correct payment\nand billing mistakes and fraud if required to develop and implement\ncompliance programs. It is the purpose of such programs to organize\n…

§ 363-e. Medicaid plan, applications for waivers and plan amendments;\npublic disclosure. 1. The commissioner of health shall post on the\ndepartment of health internet website in as timely a manner as practical\nthe entirety of the state's plan for medical assistance as require…

§ 363-f. Electronic visit verification for personal care and home\nhealth providers. The commissioner, in consultation with the Medicaid\ninspector general, is hereby authorized to promulgate regulations to\nimplement the electronic visit verification provisions of subsection (1…

§ 364. Responsibility for standards. To assure that the medical care\nand services rendered pursuant to this title are of the highest quality\nand are available to all who are in need, the responsibility for\nestablishing and maintaining standards for medical care and eligibilit…

§ 364-a. Cooperation of state departments. 1. There shall be such\ncooperative arrangements, between and among the department of health and\nother state departments and agencies as shall be necessary to assure\nthat the purposes and objectives of this title will be effectively\n…

* § 364-b. Residential and medical care placement demonstration\nprojects. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this\nchapter or any other law to the contrary, social services districts are\nhereby authorized to conduct or participate in time-limited\ndemonstration …

* § 364-c. National long term care channeling demonstration project.\n1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this chapter or any\nother law to the contrary, the Rensselaer county social services\ndistrict is hereby authorized to participate in the national long term\n…

* § 364-d. Medical assistance research and demonstration projects. 1.\nThe department is authorized to sponsor, conduct and participate in the\nfollowing research and demonstration projects: "Eldercare: A Social\nHealth Maintenance Organization", "New York State Alcoholism Servi…

* § 364-e. Aid to families with dependent children homemaker/home\nhealth aide demonstration projects. 1. Notwithstanding sections three\nhundred sixty-six and three hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter, the\ndepartment shall have the authority to enter into agreements with soc…

* § 364-f. Primary care case management programs. 1. The department is\nauthorized to establish primary care case management programs, under the\nmedical assistance program, in accordance with applicable federal law\nand regulations. Primary care case management programs shall o…

* § 364-g. Medical assistance capitation rate demonstration project.\n1. The department and the county of Monroe are authorized to participate\nin the "Monroe County Medicap Plan" research and demonstration project,\nfor the purpose of testing the feasibility of converting from …

* § 364-h. Foster family care demonstration programs for elderly or\ndisabled persons. 1. The department is authorized to designate up to ten\nentities which may include general hospitals, residential health care\nfacilities, home health care programs, and long term home health …

§ 364-i. Medical assistance presumptive eligibility program. 1. An\nindividual, upon application for medical assistance, shall be presumed\neligible for such assistance for a period of sixty days from the date of\ntransfer from a general hospital, as defined in section twenty-ei…

* § 364-j. Managed care programs. 1. Definitions. As used in this\nsection, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following\nterms shall mean:\n (a) "Participant". A medical assistance recipient who receives, is\nrequired to receive or elects to receive his or her m…

§ 364-j-2. Transitional supplemental payments. 1. As used in this\nsection, "covered provider" shall mean a voluntary not-for-profit health\ncare provider that is any of the following:\n (a) a freestanding diagnostic and treatment center licensed under\narticle twenty-eight of t…

* § 364-jj. Special advisory review panel on Medicaid managed care.\n(a) There is hereby established a special advisory review panel on\nMedicaid managed care. The panel shall consist of sixteen members who\nshall be appointed as follows: six by the governor, one of which shall\…

§ 364-kk. Condition of Participation. 1. Notwithstanding any provision\nof law to the contrary, in addition to the requirements for\nparticipation in the medical assistance program as may be required to be\nmet by nursing facilities and assisted living programs, such facilities\…

* § 364-m. Statewide patient centered medical home program. 1. The\ncommissioner of health is authorized to certify certain clinicians and\nclinics as health care homes in order to improve health outcomes and\nefficiency through patient care continuity and coordination of health…

§ 364-n. Diabetes and chronic disease self-management pilot program.\nThe commissioner of health may establish a diabetes and chronic disease\nself-management pilot program in one or more counties or regions of the\nstate for the purpose of improving clinical outcomes. Payments …

§ 365. Responsibility for assistance. 1. Subject to supervision by the\ndepartment: (a) each public welfare district shall furnish medical\nassistance to the persons eligible therefor who reside in its territory,\nexcept to persons for whom another public welfare district would …

§ 365-a. Character and adequacy of assistance. The amount, nature and\nmanner of providing medical assistance for needy persons shall be\ndetermined by the public welfare official with the advice of a physician\nand in accordance with the local medical plan, this title, and the\…

§ 365-b. Local medical plans: professional directors. 1. A local\nsocial services medical plan shall be developed and maintained by each\nsocial services district under the guidance or direction of a\nprofessional director. Such plan shall conform to the regulations of the\ndepa…

§ 365-c. Medical advisory committee. 1. A medical advisory committee\nis hereby established to consist of twenty members who shall be\nappointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the\nsenate, for the following terms: seven shall be appointed for a term to\ne…

§ 365-d. Medicaid evidence based benefit review advisory committee. 1.\nThe department shall convene a Medicaid evidence based benefit review\nadvisory committee. The committee shall provide advice and make\nrecommendations regarding coverage of health technology or service for\…

§ 365-e. Optional or continued membership in entities offering\ncomprehensive health services plans. 1. In accordance with applicable\nfederal requirements and subject to the approval of the commissioner and\nthe director of the budget, a district shall offer to persons eligible…

§ 365-f. Consumer directed personal assistance program. 1. Purpose and\nintent. The consumer directed personal assistance program is intended to\npermit chronically ill and/or physically disabled individuals receiving\nhome care services under the medical assistance program grea…

§ 365-g. Utilization review for certain care, services and supplies.\n1. The department may implement a system for utilization review,\npursuant to this section, for persons eligible for benefits under this\ntitle, to evaluate the appropriateness and quality of medical\nassistan…

* § 365-h. Provision and reimbursement of transportation costs. 1. The\nlocal social services official and, subject to the provisions of\nsubdivision four of this section, the commissioner of health shall have\nresponsibility for prior authorizing transportation of eligible pers…

§ 365-j. Advisory opinions. 1. General. (a) Definition and nature of\nadvisory opinions. An advisory opinion is a written statement, issued\npursuant to the provisions of this chapter, by the commissioner of the\ndepartment of health or his or her specifically authorized designe…

§ 365-k. Provision of prenatal care services. 1. (a) The commissioner\nshall establish standards and guidelines for the provision of prenatal\ncare services under the medical assistance program. In establishing such\nstandards and guidelines, the commissioner shall consider gene…

§ 365-l. Health homes. 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation\nto the contrary, the commissioner of health is authorized, in\nconsultation with the commissioners of the office of mental health,\noffice of alcoholism and substance abuse services, and office for people\nwi…

§ 365-m. Administration and management of behavioral health services.\n1. The commissioners of the office of mental health and the office of\nalcoholism and substance abuse services, in consultation with the\ncommissioner of health, the impacted local governmental units and with…

§ 365-n. Department of health assumption of program administration. 1.\nNotwithstanding the provisions of title two of article three of this\nchapter or of section three hundred sixty-five of this title or of any\nother law to the contrary, the commissioner of health (commission…

§ 365-o. Provision and coverage of services for living organ donors.\nThis section applies in the case of a living donor under section\nforty-three hundred seventy-one of the public health law who is enrolled\nin medical assistance under this title. Living donor expenses for\nel…

§ 365-p. Doulas for Medicaid. 1. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of\nthis section, "doula" means a trained person who provides continuous\nphysical, emotional, and informational support to a pregnant person and\nthe family of such pregnant person during or a reasonable time af…

§ 366. Eligibility. 1. (a) Definitions. For purposes of this section:\n (1) "benchmark coverage" refers to medical assistance coverage defined\nin subdivision one of section three hundred sixty-five-a of this title;\n (2) "caretaker relative" means a relative of a dependent chil…

§ 366-a. Applications for assistance; investigations; reconsideration.\n1. Any person requesting medical assistance may make application\ntherefor by a written application to the social services official of the\ncounty in which the applicant resides or is found or to the departm…