Relates to a nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting list

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                     March 25, 2026
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing  the
          commissioner  of  health  to establish nursing facility transition and
          diversion Medicaid waiting lists per designated waiver region

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 6-a of section 366 of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
     3    I. THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH IS DIRECTED TO ESTABLISH A WAITING  LIST
     4  PER  DESIGNATED  WAIVER  REGION ONCE THE FEDERALLY APPROVED CAPACITY FOR
     5  THE WAIVER IS REACHED. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  DRAW  FROM  THE  REGIONAL
     6  WAITING LIST TO ACCOMMODATE ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS ONCE CAPACITY ALLOWS IN
     7  EACH REGION. UNLESS THE COMMISSIONER CHOOSES TO PRIORITIZE CERTAIN POPU-
     8  LATIONS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED TO ELIGIBLE PERSONS TRANSITIONING
     9  FROM NURSING FACILITIES, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  DRAW  ELIGIBLE  PERSONS
    10  WHO  HAVE BEEN ON THE WAITING LIST IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY CAME ON IN
    11  EACH REGION, PROVIDED THE ELIGIBLE PERSON RESIDES IN THE APPROVED WAIVER
    12  REGION FROM WHICH THE VACANCY OCCURRED.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14838-05-6