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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 334 - Orientation.

§  334. Orientation.   1. In accordance with department regulations, a
social  services  district  shall,  at  the  time  of   application   or
redetermination,  in  writing  and  orally  inform all public assistance
applicants  and  recipients  of  the  availability  of  activities   and
supportive  services  provided  under  this  title  for  which  they are
eligible and of district or participant responsibilities, including:
(a) education, employment and training opportunities  available  under
the   local  plan,  including  educational  and  training  opportunities
available at no cost to the participant as well as the  responsibilities
associated with the repayment of student financial aid;
(b)  supportive  services  as  prescribed  by  section  three  hundred
thirty-two-a of this title;  child care pursuant to section four hundred
ten-u of this chapter for persons whose eligibility for  assistance  has
terminated; and applicable medical assistance;
(c)  the  obligations  of  the  district  regarding the activities and
supportive services to be provided;
(d) the rights, responsibilities and obligations of the participant in
the program  including,  but  not  limited  to,  participation  and  the
consequences  of  failure to participate in work activities without good
cause;
(e)(1) the types and settings of child  care  services  which  may  be
reasonably  accessible  to  participants  and how such services shall be
provided and financed;
(2) the assistance available to help participants  select  appropriate
child care services; and
(3)  the assistance available upon request to help participants obtain
child care services.
2. A local social services official shall inform  applicants  for  and
recipients  of public assistance of their responsibility to cooperate in
establishing paternity and enforcing child support obligations.
3. Consistent with federal and state  law  and  regulations,  a  local
social  services  official  shall,  within  one month of the recipient's
participation in orientation, notify the recipient  in  writing  of  the
opportunity  to participate in the district's programs established under
this title and provide a clear description of how to enter the programs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 335-C - Pilot Programs.

§  335-c.  Pilot  programs.  From  the funds specifically appropriated
  therefor the commissioner of the  office  of  temporary  and  disability
  assistance  in  cooperation  with  the  commissioner  of  the  office of
  children and family services may conduct pilot programs in  up  to  five
  social  services  districts  to  provide  intensive employment and other
  supportive services including job readiness and job  placement  services
  to non-custodial parents who are unemployed or who are working less than
  twenty  hours per week; who are recipients of public assistance or whose
  income does not exceed two hundred percent of the federal poverty level;
  and  who  have  a  child  support  order  payable  through  the  support
  collection  unit  as  created  by  section  one hundred eleven-h of this
  chapter or have had paternity established for his or  her  child  and  a
  court proceeding has been initiated to obtain an order of child support,
  and  the  custodial  or  non-custodial parent is receiving child support
  services through  a  social  services  district.  Non-custodial  parents
  determined  to be eligible for participation in the pilot programs shall
  be informed of the opportunity to participate  in  such  programs  on  a
  voluntary  basis.  The  pilot  programs  shall  have  as  one  component
  parenting education for the non-custodial parents. Non-custodial parents
  shall be required to attend such parenting education as a  condition  of
  participating in the pilot programs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 336-D - Job Search Activities.

§ 336-d. Job search activities.  1. Each applicant for or recipient of
  public  assistance  shall, upon request of the social services official,
  demonstrate that he or she is engaged in an active and continuing effort
  to achieve self-sufficiency as defined by the department.   Such  effort
  shall  include but not be limited to an active and continuing search for
  employment, or for persons otherwise exempt in accordance  with  section
  three  hundred thirty-two of this title, and where deemed appropriate by
  the social services official, activities  that  foster  preparation  for
  employment.   Each such applicant or recipient shall have an affirmative
  duty to accept any offer of lawful employment in which  he  or  she  may
  engage.  The  failure of a social services district to assign applicants
  and recipients to activities pursuant to this title  shall  not  relieve
  such  persons  from the requirements  of this section. An individual who
  fails to comply with the requirements of the section shall be subject to
  the provisions set forth in subdivision  five  of  section  one  hundred
  thirty-one  of  this  chapter and of section three hundred forty-one and
  three hundred forty-two of this title.
2. The social services official shall, if deemed appropriate  by  such
  official,  supervise  job  search  activities  assigned pursuant to this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 337 - Responsibilities of State Departments and Agencies.

§   337.  Responsibilities  of  state  departments  and  agencies.  1.
  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  this  chapter  to   the   contrary,
  responsibility  for the operation and administration of work, employment
  and training programs  in  connection  with  the  programs  administered
  pursuant  to this chapter shall be vested in the commissioner subject to
  regulations, procedures and instructions of the department.
2. The department is authorized to  enter  into  agreements  with  any
  state  agency,  social services district or other entity for performance
  of activities authorized under this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 338 - Cooperation of State Departments.

§  338.  Cooperation  of  state  departments.    There  shall  be such
  cooperative  agreements  and  arrangements   between   and   among   the
  department,  the  state  department  of social services or its successor
  agency, the state department of education and  other  appropriate  state
  departments  as shall be necessary to assure compliance with federal and
  state requirements or requirements of this title relating to  employment
  programs  for  applicants  of and recipients of public assistance and to
  assure  that  the  purposes  of  such  program   will   be   effectively
  accomplished.      The  purpose  of  such  arrangements  is  to  promote
  interagency planning, coordinate service delivery  and  identify  needed
  resources for the implementation of such employment programs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 340 - Technical Assistance.

§ 340. Technical assistance.  The commissioner shall provide technical
  assistance   to   social   services   districts   in   the  development,
  implementation and administration of plans described  in  section  three
  hundred thirty-three of this title.
The  department shall monitor the implementation and ongoing operation
  of the programs pursuant to this title.  Such monitoring  shall  include
  review  of  sample  cases to assess compliance with applicable state and
  federal statutes and regulations.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 344 - Responsibility.

§  344.  Responsibility.  1.    Each social services district shall be
  responsible for  providing  family  assistance,  under  this  title,  to
  persons  eligible  therefor  who  reside  in  its  territory.  Temporary
  absence, within  or  without  the  state,  of  such  persons  from  such
  territory,   except  as  otherwise  provided,  shall  not  affect  their
  eligibility for such aid.
2.  Aid shall be construed to  include  services,  particularly  those
  services  which  may  be  necessary  for  each child in the light of the
  particular home conditions and his or her other needs.
3. Each social services district shall administer the  aid,  care  and
  services provided under this title, in accordance with state and federal
  requirements.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 345 - Definition.

§  345.   Definition.   As used in this title the term "child" means a
  person under eighteen years of age, or a person under nineteen years  of
  age who is a full-time student regularly attending a secondary school or
  in  the  equivalent level of vocational or technical training if, before
  such person attains age nineteen, such person may reasonably be expected
  to complete the program of such secondary school or training.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 348 - Application for Family Assistance.

§  348.  Application  for family assistance. 1. Application for family
  assistance shall be made to the appropriate social services district.
2. Application for or receipt of family assistance shall operate as an
  assignment to the state and the social services  district  concerned  of
  any  rights  to  support  that  accrue  during  the period that a family
  receives family assistance from any other person as  such  applicant  or
  recipient  may have either on their own behalf or on behalf of any other
  family member for whom the applicant or recipient  is  applying  for  or
  receiving  assistance. Applicants for or recipients of family assistance
  shall be informed that such application for or receipt of such  benefits
  will constitute such an assignment.
3.  Such  assignment  shall  terminate with respect to current support
  rights upon a determination by a local commissioner that such person  is
  no  longer  eligible  for  family assistance, except with respect to the
  amount of any unpaid support obligation  that  has  accrued  during  the
  period that a family received family assistance.
4.  It  shall be the duty of social services officials to provide same
  day referral of applicants for family  assistance  support  services  as
  provided  under title six-A of article three of this chapter pursuant to
  part D of title IV of the federal social security act, as  part  of  the
  initial application for family assistance.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 349-B - Deserted, Abandoned and Out-of-Wedlock Children; Special Provisions.

§    349-b.   Deserted, abandoned and out-of-wedlock children; special
provisions.   1.   In addition to  other  eligibility  requirement  each
person who is applying for or receiving assistance under this title, and
who  is  otherwise  eligible  for  assistance under this title, shall be
required, as a further condition of eligibility for such assistance:
(a)   to assign to the state and  the  social  services  district  any
rights  to  support  such person may have either in his own behalf or in
behalf of any other family  member  for  whom  he  is  applying  for  or
receiving aid; and
(b)   to cooperate with the state and the social services official, in
accordance with standards established by regulations of  the  department
consistent  with  federal  law, in establishing the paternity of a child
born out-of-wedlock for  whom  assistance  under  this  title  is  being
applied  for  or  received, in their efforts to locate any absent parent
and in obtaining support payments or any other payments or property  due
such  person  and due each child for whom assistance under this title is
being applied for or received, except that  an  applicant  or  recipient
shall not be required to cooperate in such efforts in cases in which the
social  services  official  has determined, in accordance with criteria,
including the best interests of the child, as established by regulations
of the department consistent with federal law, that  such  applicant  or
recipient  has  good  cause to refuse to cooperate.  Each social service
district shall inform applicants for and recipients of family assistance
required to cooperate with the state and local social services officials
pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, that where a proceeding to
establish paternity has been filed, and the allegation of paternity  has
been  denied  by  the  respondent,  that  there  shall  be a stay of all
paternity proceedings and  related  local  social  services  proceedings
until  sixty  days  after  the birth of the child.   Such applicants and
recipients shall also be informed that public assistance and care  shall
not  be  denied  during  the  stay  on the basis of refusal to cooperate
pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph.
2.  The amount of the payments due from the absent parent  in  meeting
his  support  obligations  under  this  section shall be the amount of a
current court support order or, in the absence of a court order, if such
parent agrees to meet his support obligation, an amount to be determined
in accordance with a support formula established by the  department  and
approved by the secretary of the federal department of health, education
and welfare.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 350-A - Protective Payments.

§ 350-a. Protective payments. 1. Whenever the social services official
  who  is  granting  allowances of family assistance to a relative for the
  benefit of a child determines that such relative is unable to manage the
  allowances he or she may, when appropriate in accordance with state  and
  federal  requirements,  pay  the allowances to another individual who is
  interested in or concerned with the welfare of the child and relative.
2.    The  determination  of  the  social  services  official  to  pay
  allowances  to  another  individual  pursuant  to subdivision one may be
  appealed to the department by the relative concerned who shall be  given
  an  opportunity  for  a  fair hearing on his appeal.  The department may
  review such determination on its own motion.  The powers and  procedures
  prescribed by section twenty-two of this chapter shall likewise apply to
  the determinations, appeals and reviews made pursuant to this section.
3.  Any relative or other person who is granted an allowance of family
  assistance  for the benefit of a child or children and who wilfully uses
  all or any part of such allowance other than for  the  benefit  of  such
  child or children, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 352 - Deserted or Abandoned Children; Special Provisions.

§  352.    Deserted  or abandoned children; special provisions.  1.  A
social services official who makes a family assistance allowance for the
benefit of a child who has been abandoned or deserted by a parent  shall
promptly  give notice thereof to the appropriate district attorney where
there is reason to believe such parent may have violated the  provisions
of section 260.00 of the penal law.
2. The social services official providing family assistance allowances
pursuant to the provisions of this title, for the benefit of a child who
has  an absent parent, shall have and shall perform the following duties
and powers in addition to others imposed or conferred upon him or her by
or pursuant to other provisions of this chapter or other law:
(a)  to take such steps and make such efforts to locate any parent  of
such  child  whose  whereabouts  are  unknown  to  such  official as all
available means will allow; such means shall include, and there shall be
utilization of, appropriate  services  offered  by  the  department,  by
agencies of other states and by the federal government;
(b)   to determine the ability and potential ability of the parents of
each such child to support or to  contribute  to  the  support  of  such
child;
(c)    to  establish  cooperative  arrangements with the family court,
county  attorneys,  corporation  counsels  and  other  law   enforcement
officials,  for the location of missing parents of such children and for
the enforcement of their obligations to support or contribute to support
of such children to the extent of their ability;
(d)    to  provide  pertinent  information  to  such  court  and   law
enforcement  officials  to  enable  them  to  assist  in locating absent
parents of such children and in  securing  support  payments  therefrom,
provided  that  there  is  an  agreement  between  such  social services
official and such court and such law enforcement officials insuring that
such information will be used only for the purpose intended;
(e)  to reimburse, to the extent that state and  federal  requirements
authorize  or  require, appropriate courts and law enforcement officials
for activities related to the  requirements  of  this  chapter  and  the
family  court act with respect to enforcement of support obligations and
for services they have undertaken on behalf of such official.
3.   For purposes of this section,  "absent  parent"  shall  mean  any
person  who  is legally responsible for a spouse or child, who is absent
from the household, whether such person's location is known or  unknown,
and fails to provide for the support of such spouse or child.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 352-A - Children Born Out of Wedlock; Special Provisions.

§  352-a.   Children born out of wedlock; special provisions.  1.  The
social  services  official  providing  family   assistance   allowances,
pursuant  to  the  provisions of this title, for the benefit of children
born out of wedlock, shall have and shall perform the  following  duties
and powers in addition to others imposed or conferred upon him or her by
or pursuant to other provisions of this chapter or other law:
(a)    to  ascertain who may be the putative father of such child born
out of wedlock, and take appropriate steps to  establish  the  paternity
thereof in accordance with applicable provisions of law;
(b)   to determine the ability and potential ability of the parents of
each such child to support or to  contribute  to  the  support  of  such
child;
(c)    to  take  such  steps  and make such efforts to locate any such
parent whose whereabouts are unknown to such official as  all  available
means  will  allow;  such  means  shall  include,  and  there  shall  be
utilization of, appropriate  services  offered  by  the  department,  by
agencies of other states and by the federal government;
(d)    to  establish  cooperative  arrangements with the family court,
county  attorneys,  corporation  counsels  and  other  law   enforcement
officials,  for  the  establishment of paternity and location of missing
parents of such children and for the enforcement of their obligations to
support or contribute to support of such children to the extent of their
ability;
(e)    to  provide  pertinent  information  to  such  court  and   law
enforcement  officials  to  enable  them  to assist in locating putative
fathers  and  deserting  parents  of  such  children,  in   establishing
paternity  and  in  securing  support  payments therefrom, provided that
there is an agreement between such social  services  official  and  such
court  and such law enforcement officials insuring that such information
will be used only for the purpose intended;
(f)  to reimburse, to the extent that state and  federal  requirements
authorize  or  require, appropriate courts and law enforcement officials
for activities related to the  requirements  of  this  chapter  and  the
family  court  act  with  respect  to establishment of paternity and for
services they have undertaken on behalf of such official.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 353 - Grant of Aid.

§  353.    Grant of aid.   Upon the completion of an investigation the
proper social services official shall
(a)  decide whether the applicant is eligible for and  should  receive
family  assistance, the amount, nature and manner of paying or providing
it and the date on which it shall begin,
(b)  notify the applicant of his decision in writing.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 355 - Rules, Regulations and Forms.

§  355.    Rules,  regulations  and forms.   The department shall   1.
  supervise the administration of family assistance,
2.  prescribe the form of and print and supply to the  public  welfare
  officials  blanks  for  applications, reports, affidavits and such other
  forms as it may deem advisable,
3.  make regulations necessary for the carrying out of the  provisions
  of  this  title  to  the  end  that  allowances  may  be granted and the
  provisions of this title administered uniformly throughout the state.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 356 - Moneys to Be Provided by Counties and Cities; How Expended.

§  356.    Moneys to be provided by counties and cities; how expended.
  1. The legislative body of each social services district shall  annually
  appropriate  to  the  commissioner of social services such sum as may be
  needed for family assistance, and for the administration  thereof.  When
  the assistance for which such social services district is responsible is
  administered,  pursuant  to  title three-A of article three, by a social
  services official who is not an officer of the social services  district
  for which the appropriation is made, all or part of the sum appropriated
  shall be made available to such other officer and to the municipality of
  which  he  or she is an officer, in the manner, and at such times, as is
  required  by other provisions of this chapter. The legislative  body  of
  the social services district shall include such sums in the taxes  to be
  levied for such social services district.
2.  Allowances  granted  for  family  assistance  shall be paid out of
  moneys appropriated or otherwise made  available to the social  services
  district.
3.  Expenditures for allowances and administrative expenses under this
  title shall be a charge upon the county or city public welfare district.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 357 - Quarterly Estimates.

§ 357. Quarterly estimates. Each social services district shall submit
  to  the  department quarterly estimates of its anticipated  expenditures
  for family assistance and administrative expenses not less  than  thirty
  days  before    the  first  day of each of the quarters beginning on the
  first day of the months of July, October, January  and  April,  in  such
  form  and  together  with  such  other information as the department may
  require.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 358-B - Limitations on State Reimbursement for Foster Care.

* §  358-b. Limitations on state reimbursement for foster care. In the
  event that a petition for approval of an instrument and the transfer  of
  the  custody  and  guardianship  or care and custody of a child is filed
  within thirty days following removal of the  child  from  his  home  and
  diligently  pursued  pursuant  to section three hundred fifty-eight-a of
  this title, state reimbursement shall not  be  denied  for  expenditures
  made  by a social services district for the care and maintenance of such
  a child away from his home prior to denial of such petition by a  family
  court judge solely by reason of such denial.
* NB Effective until June 30, 2027
* §  358-b. Limitations on state reimbursement for foster care. In the
  event that a petition for approval of an instrument and the transfer  of
  the  custody  and  guardianship  or care and custody of a child is filed
  within thirty days following removal of the  child  from  his  home  and
  diligently  pursued  pursuant  to section three hundred fifty-eight-a of
  this chapter, state  reimbursement  shall  not  be  denied  pursuant  to
  section one hundred fifty-three-d of this chapter, for expenditures made
  by  a  social  services  district for the care and maintenance of such a
  child away from his home prior to denial of such petition  by  a  family
  court judge solely by reason of such denial.
* NB Effective June 30, 2027
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 358-C - Rules of Court.

§  358-c.    Rules of court.  The administrative board of the judicial
  conference  shall   prepare,   by   August   first,   nineteen   hundred
  seventy-three,  rules of court for the efficient and just administration
  of  the  judicial  proceedings  authorized  by  section  three   hundred
  fifty-eight-a  of  this  chapter  and  such  rules may be amended by the
  administrative board from time to time.  The state  administrator  shall
  prescribe  forms for petitions, notices and orders authorized by section
  three hundred fifty-eight-a, and may authorize courts  determining  such
  proceedings  to  submit information to the department in a manner and at
  such times as the administrative board may prescribe.   Nothing in  this
  section  shall be construed to limit the authority of the state board of
  social welfare.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 10 - Aid to Dependent Children › 360 - Real Property of Legally Responsible Relatives.

§  360.  Real property of legally responsible relatives. The ownership
  of real property by an applicant or applicants, recipient or  recipients
  who is or are legally responsible relatives of the child or children for
  whose  benefit  the  application  is made or the aid is granted, whether
  such ownership be individual or joint as tenants in common,  tenants  by
  the entirety or joint tenants, shall not preclude the granting of family
  assistance  or  the  continuance  thereof  if he or they are without the
  necessary funds to maintain himself,  herself  or  themselves  and  such
  child or children.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 363 - Declaration of Objects.

§  363.   Declaration of objects. Medical assistance for needy persons
  is hereby declared to be a matter of public concern and a  necessity  in
  promoting  the  public  health and welfare and for promoting the state's
  goal of making available to everyone, regardless of race, age,  national
  origin  or  economic  standing,  uniform, high-quality medical care.  In
  furtherance of such goal, a comprehensive program of medical  assistance
  for  needy  persons  is  hereby established to operate in a manner which
  will assure a uniform high standard of medical assistance throughout the
  state.   In carrying out this program every  effort  shall  be  made  to
  promote  maximum  public awareness of the availability of, and procedure
  for obtaining, such assistance, and to facilitate the  application  for,
  and the provision of such medical assistance.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 363-A - Federal Aid; State Plan.

§  363-a.  Federal  aid; state plan. 1. The department of health shall
  submit and maintain a plan for medical assistance, as required by  title
  XIX,  or any successor title, of the federal social security act, to the
  federal department of health and human services for approval pursuant to
  the provisions of such law and shall act as the single state  agency  to
  supervise  the  administration of the plan in this state. The department
  of health shall act for the state in any negotiations  relative  to  the
  submission  and  approval of such plan and any amendments thereto and it
  may make such  arrangements,  not  inconsistent  with  law,  as  may  be
  required  by  or  pursuant  to  federal  law  to  obtain and retain such
  approval and to secure for the state the benefits of the  provisions  of
  such law.
2.   The  department  of  health  shall  make  such  regulations,  not
  inconsistent with law, as may be necessary to implement this title.
3. The  department  of  health  shall  make  reports  to  the  federal
  department  of  health  and  human  services as from time to time may be
  required by such federal department.
4. The department of taxation and finance shall accept and receive any
  and all grants of money awarded to the state under  title  XIX,  or  any
  successor  title,  of  the  federal social security act.   All moneys so
  received shall be deposited by the department of taxation and finance in
  a special fund or funds and shall be used by the state  exclusively  for
  medical  assistance  and the administration thereof under the provisions
  of this title. Such moneys shall be paid from  such  fund  or  funds  on
  audit  and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers of or certification by
  the department of health.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 363-B - Agreements for Federal Determination of Eligibility of Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons for Medical Assistance.

§ 363-b.  Agreements for federal determination of eligibility of aged,
  blind  and  disabled  persons for medical assistance.   1.   In order to
  avoid costly, duplicative administrative responsibility, the  department
  on  behalf  of  the  state may, with the approval of the director of the
  budget, enter into an agreement with the secretary of health,  education
  and welfare for the secretary to determine eligibility, commencing on or
  after  the  first  day  of  January  nineteen  hundred seventy-four, for
  medical assistance in the case  of  aged,  blind  or  disabled  persons,
  pursuant  to  the provisions of the social security act authorizing such
  agreements and  subject  to  the  requirements  of  this  title.    Such
  agreement  shall  include provision for payments of one-half the cost of
  such services to be made to such secretary.
2.  Payments required to be made by the department to the secretary of
  health, education and welfare for  his  services  under  such  agreement
  shall  be  borne  by  and  shared  equally  between  the social services
  districts to which such payments are attributable and the state for  any
  period  commencing on or after the first day of January nineteen hundred
  seventy-four.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - 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.
* 4. Notwithstanding any laws or  regulations  to  the  contrary,  all
social  services  districts,  providers  and other recipients of medical
assistance program funds shall make available to the commissioner or the
director of the division of budget in a prompt fashion  all  fiscal  and
statistical   records   and   reports,   other  contemporaneous  records
demonstrating their right to receive payment, and all underlying  books,
records,  documentation  and  reports,  which  may  be  requested by the
commissioner or the director of the division of the  budget  as  may  be
determined necessary to manage and oversee the Medicaid program provided
however,  any  personally  identifying  information obtained pursuant to
this subdivision shall remain confidential and shall be used solely  for
the purposes of this subdivision.
* NB Repealed April 3, 2028
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 363-E - Medicaid Plan, Applications for Waivers and Plan Amendments; Public Disclosure.

§  363-e. Medicaid plan, applications for waivers and plan amendments;
  public disclosure. 1. The commissioner  of  health  shall  post  on  the
  department of health internet website in as timely a manner as practical
  the  entirety  of the state's plan for medical assistance as required by
  title XIX of the federal Social Security  Act,  or  its  successor,  and
  every approved amendment and change to the plan.
2.  The  commissioner of health shall post on the department of health
  internet website in as timely a manner as practical:  every  application
  for  a  federal waiver and every proposed state plan amendment, relating
  to the state's plan for medical assistance,  submitted  to  the  federal
  department of health and human services, or any successor agency or part
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 363-F - Electronic Visit Verification for Personal Care and Home Health Providers.

§  363-f.  Electronic  visit  verification  for personal care and home
  health providers. The commissioner, in consultation  with  the  Medicaid
  inspector  general,  is  hereby  authorized to promulgate regulations to
  implement the electronic visit verification provisions of subsection (1)
  of section 1903 of the federal social security act.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 364-E - Aid to Families With Dependent Children Homemaker/home Health Aide Demonstration Projects.

* §  364-e.  Aid  to  families  with dependent children homemaker/home
health aide demonstration projects. 1.  Notwithstanding  sections  three
hundred  sixty-six  and three hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter, the
department shall have the authority to enter into agreements with social
services districts for  the  purpose  of  conducting  the  demonstration
project  authorized  by  section  nine  hundred sixty-six of the omnibus
reconciliation act of nineteen hundred eighty,  designed  to  train  and
employ persons eligible for and receiving aid to families with dependent
children benefits as homemakers or home health aides. Such persons shall
provide authorized services to elderly or disabled individuals, or other
individuals in need of services, to whom such services are not otherwise
reasonably  and  actually  available or provided, and who would, without
the availability of such services, be reasonably anticipated to  require
institutional care.
2.  Participants in the demonstration project shall be persons who are
eligible participants as defined in  subdivision  (b)  of  section  nine
hundred sixty-six of P.L. 96-499.
3. For purposes of this section, authorized services include part-time
or intermittent:
(a) personal care, such as bathing, grooming and toilet care;
(b) assisting patients having limited mobility;
(c) feeding and diet assistance;
(d) home management, housekeeping and shopping;
(e) health-oriented recordkeeping; and
(f) simple procedures for identifying potential health problems.
4.  For  the first year during which a person is employed by a project
authorized by this section, such person shall,  notwithstanding  section
three  hundred  sixty-six  of  this  chapter, retain any eligibility for
medical assistance under a state plan approved under Title  XIX  of  the
Social  Security  Act,  which such person had at the time he/she entered
the project.
5. Expenditures made for services provided by persons participating in
this  demonstration  project  shall  be  considered  medical  assistance
expenditures  and  shall  be reimbursed in accordance with section three
hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter.
6. This section shall  be  effective  if,  and  as  long  as,  federal
financial participation is available therefor.
* NB Expired June 30, 1986
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 364-KK - Condition of Participation.

§ 364-kk. Condition of Participation. 1. Notwithstanding any provision
  of   law   to   the  contrary,  in  addition  to  the  requirements  for
  participation in the medical assistance program as may be required to be
  met by nursing facilities and assisted living programs, such  facilities
  and  programs,  adult  homes  and  enriched  housing  programs receiving
  payment under this chapter shall enter  into  arrangements  with  social
  services   districts  to  admit,  on  a  priority  basis,  a  number  of
  individuals eligible to have medical assistance paid on their behalf who
  are otherwise  appropriate  for  nursing  facility  or  other  long-term
  residential  care,  as  described  in this section, and whose health and
  safety reasonably cannot  be  maintained  in  their  own  homes  by  the
  provision of personal care services, home health services, or other home
  and community-based services, as determined by the local social services
  official pursuant to standards promulgated by the department pursuant to
  section three hundred sixty-seven-m of this chapter.
2.  The  department  shall by regulation establish a method or formula
  for determining a fair and equitable distribution of priority admissions
  under this section in order that  all  providers  of  nursing  home  and
  long-term   residential  care  services  share  the  responsibility  for
  accepting placements required under subdivision one hereof,  and  accept
  such  placements,  and  that  no  one  provider  of  nursing facility or
  long-term residential care, group or classification thereof is  required
  to   accept  a  number  of  such  placements  as  would  jeopardize  the
  profitability or viability of  such  provider,  group  of  providers  or
  classification  of  providers,  or  as  would otherwise unduly burden or
  impair the operation, character or continuation of such provider,  group
  of providers, or classification of provider.
3.  The  commissioners of health and social services shall monitor the
  implementation of this section and, on or before March  first,  nineteen
  hundred  ninety-six,  report  to  the  governor  and legislature on such
  implementation and the effects thereof and shall include recommendations
  for continuation or  other  modifications  to  the  provisions  of  this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 364-M - Statewide Patient Centered Medical Home Program.

* §  364-m.  Statewide  patient  centered medical home program. 1. The
commissioner of health is authorized to certify certain  clinicians  and
clinics  as  health  care  homes in order to improve health outcomes and
efficiency through patient care continuity and  coordination  of  health
services.  These  providers  will  be eligible for enhanced payments for
services provided to: recipients eligible for Medicaid  fee-for-service;
enrollees eligible for Medicaid managed care; enrollees eligible for and
enrolled  in Family Health Plus organizations pursuant to title eleven-D
of this article ("Family Health Plus"); and enrollees eligible  for  and
enrolled  in Child Health Plus. As used in this section "clinic" means a
general hospital providing outpatient care or a diagnostic and treatment
center, licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law.
2. By December first, two thousand nine, the  commissioner  of  health
shall  develop  and  implement  standards  of  certification for patient
centered medical homes for Medicaid fee-for-service and Medicaid managed
care, Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus programs.  In  developing
such  standards, the commissioner of health shall: (a) consider existing
standards   developed   by   national   accrediting   and   professional
organizations;  and  (b)  consult  with national and local organizations
working on medical home models, physicians, hospitals,  clinics,  health
plans and consumers and their representatives.
3.  To  maintain  their  certification, patient centered medical homes
must:  (a) renew their certification at a frequency  determined  by  the
commissioner of health; and (b) provide data to the department of health
and  to  health  plans  in  which  the patient is enrolled to permit the
commissioner of health  to  evaluate  the  impact  of  patient  centered
medical homes on quality, outcomes and cost.
4.  Subject  to  the  availability  of  funding  and federal financial
participation, the commissioner of health is authorized:
(a) To pay enhanced rates of payment to clinics  and  clinicians  that
are certified as patient centered medical homes under this section. Such
enhancements  may  be  tiered based on the level of standard achieved by
the clinician or clinic; and
(b) To pay additional amounts for patient centered medical homes  that
meet specific process or outcome standards specified by the commissioner
of health.
5.  By December thirty-first, two thousand twelve, the commissioner of
health shall report to the governor and the legislature on the impact of
the statewide patient centered medical home program on quality, cost and
outcomes for enrollees in  Medicaid  fee-for-service,  Medicaid  managed
care, Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus.
* NB Repealed April 1, 2025
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 364-N - Diabetes and Chronic Disease Self-Management Pilot Program.

§  364-n.  Diabetes and chronic disease self-management pilot program.
  The commissioner of health may establish a diabetes and chronic  disease
  self-management  pilot program in one or more counties or regions of the
  state for the purpose of improving  clinical  outcomes.  Payments  under
  such  program  may be made for education, consultation, and peer support
  services for persons with chronic health conditions, as defined  by  the
  commissioner,  to be eligible to receive such services. The commissioner
  is authorized to establish fees for such counseling services, subject to
  the approval of  the  director  of  the  division  of  the  budget.  The
  provisions  of  this  section shall not take effect unless all necessary
  approvals under federal law and regulation have been obtained to receive
  federal financial participation for the costs of services provided under
  this section.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 11 - Medical Assistance for Needy Persons › 365-B - Local Medical Plans: Professional Directors.

§  365-b.  Local  medical  plans:  professional  directors. 1. A local
  social services medical plan shall be developed and maintained  by  each
  social   services   district  under  the  guidance  or  direction  of  a
  professional director. Such plan shall conform to the regulations of the
  department and shall be  submitted  to  the  department  and  the  state
  department  of health for review, certification and approval pursuant to
  the regulations of the department and this title.
2. The  commissioner  of  social  services  of  each  social  services
  district   shall   appoint   a  person,  possessing  the  qualifications
  established by  the  public  health  and  health  planning  council  and
  promulgated   by  the  department  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
  sixty-four of this title, to serve on a full or  part-time  basis.  Each
  professional  director  shall  serve  under the general direction of the
  commissioner of social services and shall have  the  responsibility  for
  supervising  the  program of medical assistance for needy persons in his
  social services district, pursuant to the regulations of the department.
  The state commissioner of  health  may  authorize  two  or  more  social
  services  districts  to appoint the same person to serve as professional
  director in each of such districts.
3. In addition to any  other  duty  or  responsibility  which  may  be
  assigned  or  delegated pursuant to law or regulation, each professional
  director  shall  be  responsible   for   monitoring   the   professional
  activities,  directly related to the program, of providers practicing in
  his social services district, and  shall  take  all  steps  required  or
  authorized  by  law  or regulation to ensure that such activities are in
  compliance with the provisions of this chapter, the  public  health  law
  and   regulations   promulgated  thereunder,  and  do  not  violate  the
  provisions of section sixty-five hundred nine of the  education  law  or
  regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
4.  For  purposes  of  this  section  "provider" shall mean any person
  receiving payment under this title.