N.Y. Social Services Law Section 364-H
Foster family care demonstration programs for elderly or disabled persons


1.

The department is authorized to designate up to ten entities which may include general hospitals, residential health care facilities, home health care programs, and long term home health care programs for the purpose of testing whether foster family care programs for certain elderly or disabled persons can be appropriate alternatives to institutional placement in those instances where such individuals do not have a home or the necessary resources or family support to live in the community.

2.

A hospital, facility, or program designated as a foster family care demonstration program shall perform the following functions:

(a)

recruitment, selection and training of families to serve as foster families;

(b)

selection of those elderly or disabled persons who will receive foster family care services under the demonstration project authorized herein, and assessment of their needs;

(c)

provision of or arrangement for necessary medical services; and

(d)

monitoring the care being received by the person in the foster family care home, and assessing the continuing viability of placement in such home.

3.

Persons eligible to participate in the foster family care demonstration programs authorized by this section shall be:

(a)

medically eligible for placement in a skilled nursing facility or a health related facility or eligible for home care services;

(b)

capable of being cared for in the community if a suitable home environment and medical support services are provided; and

(c)

lacking the home, resources or family support to live in the community.

4.

Families who participate in the foster family care demonstration program shall be willing and able to provide:

(a)

room and board;

(b)

supervision of or assistance with the activities of daily living; and

(c)

personal care and other related services which may be necessary to maintain the person in the community.

5.

In designating a hospital, facility, or program to provide a foster family care program, the department shall be satisfied as to the cost-effectiveness of the proposal as compared to institutional long term care.

6.

The commissioner may waive the provisions of titles one and two of article 7 (Residential Care Programs For Adults and Children)article seven of this chapter and regulations of the department relative thereto as necessary to implement the provisions of this section; provided, however, the commissioner shall be satisfied that the health, safety and welfare of persons participating in the foster care programs are not affected negatively by such waivers.

7.

This section shall not be interpreted to restrict a medical assistance recipient’s choice of provider of services to which he is entitled pursuant to this title or to authorize any change in the eligibility criteria for medical assistance.

8.

A medical assistance recipient may discontinue participation in a foster family care demonstration program at any time.

9.

The department shall utilize all potential sources of funding for such foster family care programs including, but not limited to, funding available through titles sixteen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty of the federal social security act and the federal older Americans act of 1965, as amended. Services provided as part of a foster family care program and related administrative expenses not otherwise eligible for coverage under these or other funding sources shall be eligible for reimbursement under the medical assistance program for the purposes of this demonstration as long as federal financial participation is available. The department shall take all steps necessary to secure such funding including the submission of applicable waivers. Copies of waiver submissions shall be provided to the chairman of the senate finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means committee.

10.

The department, in consultation with the department of health and the office for the aging, shall provide an interim report to the governor and the legislature on or before November first, nineteen hundred eighty-six and a final report on or before October thirty-one, nineteen hundred ninety-five on the results of the foster family care demonstration program. The report shall include findings as to the program’s cost effectiveness including consideration of the costs of maintaining the person in the community, funding sources, programmatic benefits and the effect on the need for residential health care facility beds. In the final report, the department shall offer recommendations as to whether the program should be extended, modified, eliminated or made permanent.

11.

Foster family care demonstration programs authorized pursuant to chapter nine hundred forty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-three and chapter five hundred forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-four shall comply with the provisions of this section but shall be in addition to the entities designated in subdivision one of this section. Such previously authorized demonstration projects shall be subject to the expiration date of this section. * NB Repealed December 31, 2025

Source: Section 364-H — Foster family care demonstration programs for elderly or disabled persons, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/SOS/364-H (updated Jul. 30, 2021; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

363
Declaration of objects
363‑A
Federal aid
363‑B
Agreements for federal determination of eligibility of aged, blind and disabled persons for medical assistance
363‑C
Medicaid management
363‑D
Provider compliance program
363‑E
Medicaid plan, applications for waivers and plan amendments
363‑F
Electronic visit verification for personal care and home health providers
364
Responsibility for standards
364‑A
Cooperation of state departments
364‑B
Residential and medical care placement demonstration projects
364‑C
National long term care channeling demonstration project
364‑D
Medical assistance research and demonstration projects
364‑E
Aid to families with dependent children homemaker/home health aide demonstration projects
364‑F
Primary care case management programs
364‑G
Medical assistance capitation rate demonstration project
364‑H
Foster family care demonstration programs for elderly or disabled persons
364‑I
Medical assistance presumptive eligibility program
364‑J
Managed care programs
364‑J‑2
Transitional supplemental payments
364‑JJ
Special advisory review panel on Medicaid managed care
364‑KK
Condition of Participation
364‑M
Statewide patient centered medical home program
364‑N
Diabetes and chronic disease self-management pilot program
365
Responsibility for assistance
365‑A
Character and adequacy of assistance
365‑B
Local medical plans: professional directors
365‑C
Medical advisory committee
365‑D
Medicaid evidence based benefit review advisory committee
365‑E
Optional or continued membership in entities offering comprehensive health services plans
365‑F
Consumer directed personal assistance program
365‑G
Utilization review for certain care, services and supplies
365‑H
Provision and reimbursement of transportation costs
365‑J
Advisory opinions
365‑K
Provision of prenatal care services
365‑L
Health homes
365‑M
Administration and management of behavioral health services
365‑N
Department of health assumption of program administration
365‑O
Provision and coverage of services for living organ donors
365‑P
Doulas for Medicaid
366
Eligibility
366‑A
Applications for assistance
366‑B
Penalties for fraudulent practices
366‑C
Treatment of income and resources of institutionalized persons
366‑D
Medical assistance provider
366‑E
Certified home health agency medicare billing
366‑F
Persons acting in concert with a medical assistance provider
366‑G
Newborn enrollment for medical assistance
366‑H
Automated system
366‑I
Long-term care financing demonstration program
367
Authorization for hospital care
367‑A
Payments
367‑B
Medical assistance information and payment system
367‑C
Payment for long term home health care programs
367‑D
Personal care need determination
367‑E
Payment for AIDS home care programs
367‑F
Partnership for long term care program
367‑G
Authorization and provision of personal emergency response services
367‑H
Payment for assisted living programs
367‑I
Personal care services provider assessments
367‑O
Health insurance demonstration programs
367‑P
Responsibilities of local districts for personal care services, home care services and private duty nursing
367‑P*2
Payment for limited home care services agencies
367‑Q
Personal care services worker recruitment and retention program
367‑R
Private duty nursing services worker recruitment and retention program
367‑S
Long term care demonstration program
367‑S*2
Emergency medical transportation services
367‑T
Payment for emergency physician services
367‑U
Payment for home telehealth services
367‑V
County long-term care financing demonstration program
367‑W
Health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses
367‑X
Payment for violence prevention programs
367‑Y
Reimbursement for treatment in place and transportation to alternative health care settings
368
Quarterly estimates
368‑A
State reimbursement
368‑B
State reimbursement to local health districts
368‑C
Audit of state rates of payment to providers of health care services
368‑D
Reimbursement to public school districts and state operated/state supported schools which operate pursuant to article eighty-five, eighty...
368‑E
Reimbursement to counties for pre-school children with handicapping conditions
368‑F
Reimbursement of costs under the early intervention program
369
Application of other provisions

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Jul. 30, 2021

§ 364-H’s source at nysenate​.gov

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