N.Y. SOS Law § 363-C

§ 363-c. Medicaid management. 1. The commissioner of the department\nperiodically shall convene, but not less than quarterly and no more than\nmonthly, meetings of the directors and commissioners of all state\nagencies and departments receiving general fund appropriations for the\npurpose of state matching funds for medicaid services and appropriate\nrepresentation of local departments of social services. The purpose of\nthese meetings is to identify, without limitation:\n (a) methods to contain the growth of medicaid spending;\n (b) methods to improve the quality of and recipient satisfaction with\nmedicaid state agency and department services;\n (c) opportunities for consolidation and methods to improve the\nefficiency and effectiveness of existing service delivery;\n (d) opportunities for education and prevention; and\n (e) the collective priority of critical needs for the medicaid\npopulation.\n 2. The department annually shall compile the results of these meetings\nand provide them to the governor, the senate finance committee, the\nassembly ways and means committee, the senate health committee, the\nassembly health committee, the senate social services, children and\nfamilies committee, and the assembly social services committee.\n 3. By December thirty-first of each year, the department shall submit\nto the governor, the senate finance committee, the assembly ways and\nmeans committee, the senate health committee, the assembly health\ncommittee, the senate social services, children and families committee,\nand the assembly social services committee medicaid expenditures made to\nother state agencies in the preceding state fiscal year. The report\nshall include, but is not limited to:\n (a) amounts paid to each agency according to category of service; and\n (b) rates paid to each state agency and the associated methodology\nused in developing those rates.\n 4. Notwithstanding any laws or regulations to the contrary, all social\nservices districts, providers and other recipients of medical assistance\nprogram funds shall make available to the commissioner or the director\nof the division of budget in a prompt fashion all fiscal and statistical\nrecords and reports, other contemporaneous records demonstrating their\nright to receive payment, and all underlying books, records,\ndocumentation and reports, which may be requested by the commissioner or\nthe director of the division of the budget as may be determined\nnecessary to manage and oversee the Medicaid program provided however,\nany personally identifying information obtained pursuant to this\nsubdivision shall remain confidential and shall be used solely for the\npurposes of this subdivision.\n