N.Y. Social Services Law § 368-b: State reimbursement to local health districts; chargebacks

§ 368-b. State reimbursement to local health districts; chargebacks.

1. Each approved local health district which enters into a contract

with the department of health pursuant to section three hundred

sixty-four-a of this title shall submit to the department of health a

quarterly report of expenditures for administrative expenses incurred in

the performance of such contract. The department of health shall review

such expenditures and, upon approval, shall submit the report to the

department. Upon receipt of such approved report, there shall be paid

to each such district

(a) the amount of federal funds, if any, properly received or to be

received on account of such expenditures; and

(b) fifty per centum of the amount expended for such administrative

expenses, after first deducting therefrom any federal funds properly

received or to be received on account thereof.

2. The department of health shall submit a quarterly report to the

department of expenditures for administrative expenses incurred by each

of the state health districts in the performance of the cooperative

agreement entered into pursuant to section three hundred sixty-four-a of

this title. Upon receipt of such report, the department shall deduct

the amount of federal funds, if any, properly received or to be received

on account of such expenditures from the total amounts reported for each

such district Fifty per centum of the balance shall be apportioned

among the public welfare districts served by such district in the ratio

that the total expenditures by each such public welfare district for

medical assistance for needy persons for the quarter bears to the total

expenditures by all such public welfare districts for such quarter. The

proportionate share shall be deducted from the next payment due each of

such public welfare districts pursuant to section three hundred

sixty-eight-a of this title.