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Legislative Position Memos

Browse through LeadingAge New York's memos of support and opposition.

Feel free to download these memos and send them to your lawmakers throughout the course of the legislative session!

For more information on these bills, please contact Sarah Daly or Jeff Diamond.

Legislative Position Memos

A.7085 (Paulin)/S.3572 (Skoufis)

LeadingAge New York opposes this legislation which would require nursing homes to develop and submit to the Department of Health (DOH) a designated location for the storage of bodies of deceased persons who pass while living in a nursing home.

May 29, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.7554 (Paulin)/S.7293 (Ryan)

LeadingAge New York supports this bill which would enable managed long term care (MLTC) plans that also operate a Medicare Advantage Institutional Special Needs Plan (ISNP) or a PACE program, but not a Medicare Advantage Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (DSNP), to continue to meet MLTC performance standards.

May 25, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.7553 (Paulin)/S.7248 (Cooney)

LeadingAge New York supports this bill which would ensure that the assisted living program (ALP) Medicaid reimbursement is more consistently updated to better meet current day costs.

May 25, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.2132 (Dinowitz)/S.5914-A (Chu)

LeadingAge New York supports this legislation, which would permit the automated storage and dispensing of controlled substances using an automated dispensing device (ADD) at licensed nursing homes, residential health care facilities and hospices.

May 24, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.7467 (Paulin)/S.466 (Sepulveda)

LeadingAge NY opposes this bill which requires an enhanced level of informed consent before psychotropic medications can be prescribed for patients residing in nursing homes or ACFs.

May 24, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.6221-A (Paulin) / S.6960 (Rivera)

LeadingAge New York supports passage of this bill, which ensures that the state implements certain federal conflict of interest requirements in a manner that ensures limited disruption of certain services.

May 22, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.6697-A (Fahy)

LeadingAge New York supports this legislation, which would allow certain applicants for licensure as a nurse or physician who are currently licensed and in good standing in another state or territory to be granted authorization to practice in this state for a limited period of time pending a determination on their licensure in New York State. 

May 22, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.6021 (Paulin)/S.3146 (Mannion)

LeadingAge New York strongly supports this bill which would codify in statute quality incentive programs for the state’s Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) and Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) programs.

May 17, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.5905-A (Woerner)/S.6914 (Rivera)

LeadingAge New York strongly supports this legislation, which would require New York State’s Department of Health (DOH) to update nursing home Medicaid rates at least every five years, in consultation with a workgroup that includes technical experts in nursing home rate setting.

May 12, 2023

Legislative Position Memos

A.4616 (Gunther)

LeadingAge New York has concerns with this legislation, which would allow a nursing home patient or their representative to install, operate and maintain, at their own expense, an electronic monitoring device in their room.

May 10, 2023
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