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NY A06506
Bill
Status
11/23/2022
Primary Sponsor
Aileen Gunther
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AI Summary
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Requires the commissioner of mental health to provide monthly status reports to the chairs of the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee, and post reports on the office's publicly accessible website
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Reports must include state-operated psychiatric facility census levels and instances when census exceeds budgeted capacity with explanations
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Reports must track out-of-catchment area placements due to insufficient local capacity, admissions and discharges, and Medicaid psychiatric inpatient readmissions within 30 days of discharge
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Reports must document Medicaid emergency room psychiatric visits, descriptions of new community service investments, average length of stay, number of long-term stay patients, and explanations of material census reductions
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment
Legislative Description
Requires the commissioner of the office of mental health to provide monthly status reports of the community investments and the impact on inpatient census to the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee and to post such report on the office's website.
Last Action
approval memo.30
11/23/2022