2006 New York Code - Medicaid Management.

 
    * §  363-c. Medicaid management. 1. The commissioner of the department
  periodically shall convene, but not less than quarterly and no more than
  monthly, meetings of  the  directors  and  commissioners  of  all  state
  agencies  and  departments receiving general fund appropriations for the
  purpose of state matching funds for medicaid  services  and  appropriate
  representation  of  local departments of social services. The purpose of
  these meetings is to identify, without limitation:
    (a) methods to contain the growth of medicaid spending;
    (b) methods to improve the quality of and recipient satisfaction  with
  medicaid state agency and department services;
    (c)  opportunities  for  consolidation  and  methods  to  improve  the
  efficiency and effectiveness of existing service delivery;
    (d) opportunities for education and prevention;
    (e) annually the  number  of  persons  on  waiting  lists  to  receive
  services and the type of services for each list; and
    (f)  the  collective  priority  of  critical  needs  for  the medicaid
  population.
    2. The department annually shall compile the results of these meetings
  and provide them to the governor,  the  senate  finance  committee,  the
  assembly  ways  and  means  committee,  the senate health committee, the
  assembly health committee, the  senate  social  services,  children  and
  families committee, and the assembly social services committee.
    3.  By December thirty-first of each year, the department shall submit
  to the governor, the senate finance committee,  the  assembly  ways  and
  means  committee,  the  senate  health  committee,  the  assembly health
  committee, the senate social services, children and families  committee,
  and the assembly social services committee medicaid expenditures made to
  other  state  agencies  in  the  preceding state fiscal year. The report
  shall include, but is not limited to:
    (a) amounts paid to each agency according to category of service; and
    (b) rates paid to each state agency  and  the  associated  methodology
  used in developing those rates.
    * NB Effective August 10, 2006