New York Mental Hygiene Law Section 19.18 - Opioid addiction treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program.

*  19.18 Opioid    addiction    treatment    and   hospital   diversion
          demonstration program.
1. The commissioner, in consultation with the  department  of  health,
  shall  establish  a  heroin  and opioid addiction treatment and hospital
  diversion demonstration program. This program shall provide a new  model
  of  detoxification  and  transitional  services  for individuals seeking
  treatment for heroin and  opioid  addiction  that  utilizes  short-term,
  residential  and peer-supported services for opioid and heroin addiction
  with a goal of  reducing  reliance  on  emergency  room  services  while
  providing   appropriate   supports   to   patients  and  families.  Such
  demonstration program shall utilize existing beds in medically monitored
  detoxification programs, to  the  extent  that  beds  are  located,  and
  services  are  modified,  appropriately,  to  serve those with heroin or
  opioid addictions; and  shall  permit  participation  by  all  programs,
  services, and facilities that are certified or licensed pursuant to this
  article.  Individuals  who  receive  detoxification services pursuant to
  this demonstration  program  shall,  upon  completion,  be  referred  to
  services  that  are appropriate to facilitate their recovery from heroin
  and opioid addiction. The commissioner  shall  establish  demonstrations
  throughout the state.
2.  Not later than two years after the effective date of this section,
  the commissioner shall provide the governor, the temporary president  of
  the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the  chair of the senate
  standing committee on health  and  the  chair  of  the  assembly  health
  committee  with  a written evaluation of the demonstration program. Such
  evaluation shall address the overall effectiveness of this demonstration
  program as it relates to patients,  the  surrounding  community,  health
  care  providers  and  health  care payors, and shall include, but not be
  limited  to:  locations  and  utilization  rates  of  the  demonstration
  program; the amounts of grants awarded pursuant to this section, and the
  programs,  services,  and  facilities  that  received  such  grants; the
  effectiveness of  the  demonstration  program  in  providing  access  to
  services; the impact of these services; the associated cost savings; and
  whether  continuation  or  expansion  of  this  demonstration program or
  similar models are recommended.
3. The opioid addiction treatment and hospital diversion demonstration
  program  shall  provide  grants,  within  appropriations  therefor,   to
  programs,  services,  and  facilities  that  are  certified  or licensed
  pursuant to this article.  Grants  may  be  awarded  by  the  office  to
  programs,  services,  and facilities for the purpose of establishing the
  demonstration program pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
* NB Repealed June 23, 2017

Last modified: February 3, 2019