2799-S - Medical home demonstration programs.
* § 2799-s. Medical home demonstration programs. 1. The commissioner, in consultation with the New York state chapter of the American College of Physicians and primary care physicians, shall establish two medical home demonstration programs, one to be located in the county of Nassau and the second to be located in the county of Onondaga, the purpose of which is to evaluate the effectiveness of the medical home concept in promoting health through both treatment of patients with chronic medical conditions and providing preventative care and improving health care delivery. A "medical home demonstration program", for purposes of this article, is defined as a program that incorporates the delivery of health care in a variety of settings based upon the needs of the patient and the skills of a provider, and is designed to furnish continuous, comprehensive medical care. It is facilitated through an ongoing, personal relationship between a patient and his or her primary care provider. 2. In approving such medical home demonstration programs, the commissioner shall consider the following characteristics, including but not limited to, the extent to which the program: (a) uses health information technology and other innovations to support the management and coordination of care provided to patients; (b) has established, where practical, effective referral relationships between the primary care provider and the major medical specialties and ancillary services in the region; (c) applies standards for access to care and communication with demonstration participants for whom it provides care; (d) has the ability to collect and maintain readily accessible, clinically useful information on demonstration participants that will enable the program to comprehensively and systematically treat such participants; (e) can implement evidence-based guidelines and apply such guidelines to the identified needs of individual participants and the programs' patient population over time; (f) assists in the early identification of health care needs; and (g) provides ongoing primary care including care for acute, chronic and preventative needs. 4. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of this article. 5. The department shall evaluate the programs' effectiveness in promoting health through improving health care delivery, and promoting participants' and physicians' satisfaction with the medical home model, and shall issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the governor and legislature on or before April thirtieth, two thousand twelve. * NB Repealed January 1, 2012