2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 5 - ASSISTANCE AND CARE
Title 11 - (363 - 369) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY PERSONS
363-C - 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; and
    (e) 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.