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Assembly Bill A9521

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to payment for telehealth services under the medical assistance program; repealer

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2017-A9521 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld Art 29-G, Pub Health L; amd §367-u, Soc Serv L

2017-A9521 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for payment for telehealth services under the medical assistance program.

2017-A9521 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9521
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to telehealth under
   medical assistance; and to repeal article 29-G of  the  public  health
   law relating to telehealth delivery of services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Article 29-G of the public health law is REPEALED.
   § 2. The section heading and subdivision 2 of  section  367-u  of  the
 social  services  law,  the  section heading as added by section 63-c of
 part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2007, subdivision 2  as  amended  by
 chapter 6 of the laws of 2015, are amended to read as follows:
   Payment for [home] telehealth services.
   2.  (A) Subject to federal financial participation and the approval of
 the director of the budget, [the commissioner shall not exclude from the
 payment of medical assistance funds the delivery of health care services
 through telehealth, as defined in subdivision four of section two  thou-
 sand  nine  hundred  ninety-nine-cc  of  the  public health law] MEDICAL
 ASSISTANCE SHALL NOT EXCLUDE FROM COVERAGE A SERVICE THAT  IS  OTHERWISE
 COVERED  UNDER  MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE BECAUSE THE SERVICE IS DELIVERED VIA
 TELEHEALTH. Such services shall meet the requirements  of  federal  law,
 rules  and  regulations for the provision of medical assistance pursuant
 to this title.
   (B) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "TELEHEALTH" MEANS  THE  USE  OF
 ELECTRONIC  INFORMATION  AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES BY A HEALTH CARE
 PROVIDER TO DELIVER HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO  AN  INDIVIDUAL  WHILE  SUCH
 INDIVIDUAL  IS  LOCATED  AT A SITE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE SITE WHERE
 THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER IS LOCATED.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14094-01-8

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