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                                  1471

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
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Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  child  health
  insurance plan coverage

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 2510 of the public health law, as
amended by chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  11.  "Inpatient  health  care  services"  means:  inpatient   hospital
services,  INCLUDING PHYSICAL MEDICINE REHABILITATION SERVICES, provided
by a general hospital, as defined in article twenty-eight of this  chap-
ter,  A FACILITY TREATED AS AN EXCLUDED PHYSICAL MEDICINE REHABILITATION
HOSPITAL PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (E) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION  TWEN-
TY-EIGHT  HUNDRED  SEVEN-C  OF  THIS CHAPTER, a facility operated by the
office of mental health under section 7.17 of the mental hygiene law,  a
facility  issued  an operating certificate pursuant to the provisions of
article [twenty-three or] thirty-one  of  the  mental  hygiene  law  and
services  provided  by physicians and other professional personnel on an
inpatient basis for  covered  inpatient  services;  as  defined  by  the
commissioner in consultation with the superintendent.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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