2006 New York Code - Special Advisory Review Panel On Medicaid Managed Care.

 
    § 364-jj. Special advisory review panel on Medicaid managed care.  (a)
  There  is hereby established a special advisory review panel on Medicaid
  managed care.  The panel shall consist of  nine  members  who  shall  be
  appointed as follows: three by the governor, one of which shall serve as
  the  chair;  two  each  by the temporary president of the senate and the
  speaker of the assembly; and one each by  the  minority  leader  of  the
  senate  and  the  minority  leader of the assembly. All members shall be
  appointed no later than September first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-six.
  Members  shall  serve  without  compensation but shall be reimbursed for
  appropriate expenses.  The department shall provide technical assistance
  and access to data as is  required  for  the  panel  to  effectuate  the
  mission and purposes established herein.
    (b) The panel shall:
    (i)  determine  whether  there  is  sufficient  managed  care provider
  participation in the Medicaid managed care program;
    (ii) determine whether managed care providers meet  proper  enrollment
  targets  that  permit  as  many  Medicaid recipients as possible to make
  their own health plan decisions, thus minimizing the number of automatic
  assignments;
    (iii) review the phase-in schedule for  enrollment,  of  managed  care
  providers under both the voluntary and mandatory programs;
    (iv)  assess  the  impact  of  managed  care  provider  marketing  and
  enrollment strategies, and the public education  campaign  conducted  in
  New  York  city,  on  enrollees  participation  in Medicaid managed care
  plans;
    (v) evaluate  the  adequacy  of  managed  care  provider  capacity  by
  reviewing established capacity measurements and monitoring actual access
  to plan practitioners;
    (vi)  examine  the  cost  implications  of  populations  excluded  and
  exempted from Medicaid managed care; and
    (vii) examine other issues as it deems appropriate.
    (c)  Commencing  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-seven  and
  quarterly  thereafter  the  panel  shall   submit a report regarding the
  status of Medicaid managed care in the state and provide recommendations
  if it deems appropriate to the governor, the temporary president and the
  minority leader of the senate, and the speaker and the  minority  leader
  of the assembly.