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Senate Bill S7433

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Expands the authority of the Medicaid evidence-based benefit review advisory committee

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2015-S7433 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-d, Soc Serv L

2015-S7433 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the authority of the Medicaid evidence-based benefit review advisory committee.

2015-S7433 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7433 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7433

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 29, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  the  Medicaid
  evidence-based benefit review advisory committee

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 365-d of the social services  law,
as added by section 46-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2015, is
amended to read as follows:
  5.  The committee shall consider any matter regarding material changes
in the coverage status  of  a  particular  item,  health  technology  or
service,  and any matter relative to new health technology assessment or
medical evidence review [for which the department  determines  a  suffi-
cient  body  of  evidence exists to warrant committee deliberation]. The
commissioner shall provide members of the committee with any evidence or
information related to the health technology or medical service  assess-
ment  including  but not limited to, information submitted by members of
the public. The department shall report to the committee AND MAKE AVAIL-
ABLE ON THE DEPARTMENT WEBSITE QUARTERLY  ANY  programmatic  changes  to
benefits that do not rise to the level of a material change[, as well as
determinations  of  when  sufficient  medical evidence exists to warrant
committee deliberations]. The commissioner shall provide forty-five days
public notice on the department's website prior to any  meeting  of  the
committee  to  develop  recommendations  concerning health technology or
medical service coverage determinations. Such  notice  shall  include  a
description of the proposed health technology or service to be reviewed,
the conditions or diseases impacted by the health technology or service,
the  proposals  to  be  considered  by the committee, and the systematic
evidence-based assessment prepared in accordance with this  subdivision.
The committee shall allow interested parties a reasonable opportunity to
make  an  oral presentation to the committee related to the health tech-
nology or service to be reviewed and to submit written information.  The
committee shall consider any  information  provided  by  any  interested
party, including, but not limited to, health care providers, health care

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

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