Emergency medical transportation services

* § 367-s. Emergency medical transportation services. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a supplemental medical assistance payment shall be made on an annual basis to providers of emergency medical transportation services in an aggregate amount not to exceed four million dollars for two thousand six, six million dollars for two thousand seven, six million dollars for two thousand eight, six million dollars for the period May first, two thousand fourteen through March thirty-first, two thousand fifteen, and six million dollars annually beginning with the period April first, two thousand fifteen through March thirty-first, two thousand sixteen pursuant to the following methodology:

(a) For each emergency medical transportation services provider that receives medical assistance reimbursement processed through the state Medicaid payment system, the department of health shall determine the ratio of such provider's state-processed reimbursement to the total such reimbursement made during each quarter of the applicable calendar year, expressed as a percentage;

(b) For each such provider, the department of health shall multiply the percentage obtained pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision by one-quarter of the applicable aggregate amount specified in the opening paragraph of this subdivision. The result of such calculation shall represent the "emergency medical transportation service supplemental payment" and shall be paid expeditiously to such provider on a quarterly basis;

2. The amount disbursed to emergency medical transportation services providers whose area of operation is within the city of New York will be twenty-five percent of the applicable aggregate amount, with the remaining seventy-five percent to be disbursed to all other emergency medical transportation services providers.

3. If all necessary approvals under federal law and regulation are not obtained to receive federal financial participation in the payments authorized by this section, payments under this section shall be made in an aggregate amount not to exceed two million dollars for two thousand six, three million dollars for two thousand seven, three million dollars for two thousand eight, three million dollars for the period May first, two thousand fourteen through March thirty-first, two thousand fifteen, and three million dollars annually beginning with the period April first, two thousand fifteen through March thirty-first, two thousand sixteen. In such case, the multiplier set forth in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this section shall be deemed to be two million dollars or three million dollars as applicable to the annual period.

4. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of section three hundred sixty-eight-a of this title, or of any other law, to the contrary, the department of health shall pay one hundred per centum of the non-federal share of any payments made pursuant to this section.

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