N.Y. Social Services Law § 364-c: National long term care channeling demonstration project

* § 364-c. National long term care channeling demonstration project.

1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this chapter or any

other law to the contrary, the Rensselaer county social services

district is hereby authorized to participate in the national long term

care channeling demonstration project, for the purposes of

demonstrating: (a) the efficiency and effectiveness of community based

long term care services; (b) the viability of transferring the

responsibility for determining the amount, duration and scope of

services to be provided from the local social services agency to the

channeling agency; and (c) various methods of delivering services,

including services or supplies not authorized to be provided under this

title; provided, however, that no such additional services or supplies

provided hereunder shall be subject to state reimbursement unless the

department approves provision of such services or supplies to persons

eligible for medical assistance, and federal financial participation is

available for such additional services or supplies; and provided

further, that the social services district may only participate in such

demonstration in accordance with a plan submitted to the departments of

social services and health, and the division of the budget, and only to

the extent and period for which such plan has been approved by those

departments and division.

2. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the

contrary, expenditures made in connection with the national long term

care channeling demonstration project for social and health services and

medical supplies authorized to be provided by this section and approved

by the department, shall be subject to state reimbursement under section

three hundred sixty-eight-a of this title in accordance with a schedule

of maximum reimbursable amounts approved by the department and the

division of budget for such services and supplies for the project.

(b) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary,

the commissioner may authorize the Rensselaer county social services

district to pay for services and supplies provided pursuant to the

demonstration project.

3. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or any

other law to the contrary, the commissioner may, subject to the approval

of the director of the budget, approve such a demonstration project and

apply for appropriate waivers under federal law and regulation and may

waive any provision of this title or regulation of the department as may

be necessary to enable the social services district to participate in

the demonstration project, and to make medical assistance funds

available for such project.

4. The commissioner shall provide that a final evaluation be made of

the national long term care channeling demonstration project in

Rensselaer county approved and conducted hereunder in a form mutually

agreed upon by such commissioner, the state commissioner of health, and

the director of the state office for the aging, and shall provide copies

of such report to the governor and to the legislature. In addition, the

director of the state office for the aging shall submit annual interim

reports on the progress of the project to the governor and legislature

by the first day of February of each year.

* NB Expired December 31, 1985