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Assembly Bill A9867A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires Medicaid coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for allergies

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Bill Amendments

2015-A9867 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A807

2015-A9867 - Summary

Requires Medicaid coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for allergies.

2015-A9867 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9867

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 20, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  Medi-
  caid  coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for aller-
  gies

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

  Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
365-o to read as follows:
  S 365-O. ALLERGY TESTING COVERAGE. THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTABLISH
STANDARDS  AND GUIDELINES, CONSISTENT WITH NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
GUIDELINES AND OTHER CURRENT MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE  AND  LITERA-
TURE, INCLUDING UPDATING ITS PROVIDER BULLETINS, AS NECESSARY, TO REFER-
ENCE  THE  MOST  CURRENT PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE AND GUIDANCE RELATED TO
ALLERGY TESTING FOR THE PROVISION OF ALLERGY TESTING UNDER  THE  MEDICAL
ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM.    CONSISTENT WITH SUCH PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE AND
GUIDANCE, SUCH STANDARDS, GUIDELINES AND COVERAGE POLICIES  SHALL  TREAT
SEROLOGIC-SPECIFIC  IGE  TESTS AND PERCUTANEOUS SKIN TESTS AS EQUIVALENT
CONFIRMATORY TESTS IN TERMS OF THEIR SENSITIVITY AND ACCURACY, AND SHALL
TREAT THEM AS MEDICALLY NECESSARY FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WITH  A  MEDICAL
HISTORY CONSISTENT WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
  (A) AN INHALANT ALLERGY;
  (B) A FOOD ALLERGY;
  (C) HYMENOPTERA VENOM ALLERGY OR AN ALLERGY TO STINGING INSECTS;
  (D) ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS (ABPA);
  (E) CERTAIN PARASITIC DISEASES; AND
  (F) ALLERGIES TO SPECIFIC DRUGS.
  S  2. This act shall take effect the first of July next succeeding the
date upon which it shall become a law; provided  that,  effective  imme-
diately, the commissioner of health shall promulgate all rules and regu-
lations  deemed  necessary  and desirable to implement the provisions of
this act on or before its effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15060-01-6

2015-A9867A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A807

2015-A9867A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires Medicaid coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for allergies.

2015-A9867A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 9867--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 20, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
  amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring Medi-
  caid coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for  aller-
  gies

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
  (E)  ALLERGY  TESTING,  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PERCUTANEOUS SKIN
TESTS AND SEROLOGICAL BLOOD TESTS, CONSISTENT WITH  PROFESSIONAL  GUIDE-
LINES  AND  STANDARDS  OF NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENTAL AND PROFES-
SIONAL ENTITIES AND MEDICAL LITERATURE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
the  date  on which it shall have become a law; provided that, effective
immediately, the commissioner of health shall make regulations and  take
other  actions  necessary  to implement the provisions of this act on or
before such date.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15060-02-6

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