2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 40 - (4000 - 4015) HOSPICE
4013 - Hospice worker recruitment and retention program.

 
    §  4013.  Hospice  worker  recruitment  and  retention program. 1. The
  commissioner shall, subject to the provisions of subdivision two of this
  section, increase medical assistance rates of payment by  three  percent
  for  hospice services provided on and after December first, two thousand
  two,  for  purposes  of   improving   recruitment   and   retention   of
  non-supervisory   workers   or   workers   with   direct   patient  care
  responsibility.
    2. Hospice services providers which have their rates adjusted pursuant
  to this section shall use such funds for the purposes of recruitment and
  retention of non-supervisory workers or workers with direct patient care
  responsibility only and are prohibited from using  such  funds  for  any
  other purposes. Funds provided pursuant to this section are not intended
  to  supplant  support provided by a local government. Each such provider
  shall submit, at a time  and  in  a  manner  to  be  determined  by  the
  commissioner,  a written certification attesting that such funds will be
  used  solely  for  the  purpose  of   recruitment   and   retention   of
  non-supervisory   workers   or   workers   with   direct   patient  care
  responsibility. The  commissioner  is  authorized  to  audit  each  such
  provider to ensure compliance with the written certification required by
  this subdivision and shall recoup all funds determined to have been used
  for  purposes  other  than  recruitment and retention of non-supervisory
  workers  or  workers  with  direct  patient  care  responsibility.  Such
  recoupment shall be in addition to any other penalties provided by law.