New York Laws
Article 40 - Hospice
4012-A - Hospice Supplemental Financial Assistance Program for Persons With Special Needs.

(a) utilize such additional payment to provide services to persons
with special needs;
(b) shall undertake reasonable efforts to maintain financial support
from public and community contributed funding sources;
(c) shall make every reasonable effort to collect payments for
services from third party insurance payers, governmental payers and
self-paying patients; and
(d) shall establish a reasonable relationship between costs and
charges, or establish charges at approximate costs.
4. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of social
services, is authorized to submit for approval and adoption by the state
hospital review and planning council such regulations as necessary to
effectuate the provisions of this section.
5. The commissioner shall establish a rate for persons receiving care
in a hospice residence, and may by regulation specify additional
standards necessary to ensure that the provisions of this section
promote medical assistance recipients access to hospice residence care
including; (a) that such recipients are otherwise unable to
appropriately receive hospice care in their own home; and (b) the
provision of supplemental financial assistance will promote the
efficient delivery of appropriate, quality, cost-effective services.