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NY A03870
Bill
Status
2/8/2023
Primary Sponsor
Chantel Jackson
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AI Summary
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Establishes "comprehensive outpatient services centers" as facilities providing integrated mental health, addiction, and physical health services under a single coordinated system.
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Authorizes the commissioners of health, mental health, and addiction services to jointly create unified licensing standards and operational requirements for these centers, including application review, treatment records, billing structures, and incident reporting.
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Defines comprehensive outpatient services to include preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative care for mental illness, addiction, and physical health conditions regardless of a patient's primary diagnosis.
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Requires providers to demonstrate experience in delivering physical, mental health, and addiction services and comply with criminal history reviews for employees with unsupervised client contact.
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Prevents state law from limiting the volume of primary care, mental health, or addiction services that comprehensive outpatient services centers can provide, with exceptions only as specified in regulations.
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Effective January 1, 2024, with commissioners authorized to issue implementing regulations immediately.
Legislative Description
Authorizes the commissioners of the department of health, the office of mental health, and the office of addiction services and support to jointly establish a single set of licensing standards and requirements for the construction, operation, reporting and surveillance of comprehensive outpatient services centers.
Last Action
referred to mental health
1/3/2024