Assembly Bill A9863

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A9863 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A2794
2021-2022: A195
2023-2024: A7244

2017-A9863 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.

2017-A9863 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9863
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 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 medical  assist-
   ance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther-
   apy for the purpose of disease management
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (ff) to read as follows:
   (FF)  MEDICALLY  TAILORED MEALS AND MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY. AS USED
 IN THIS PARAGRAPH, "MEDICALLY TAILORED MEALS AND MEDICAL NUTRITION THER-
 APY" MEANS NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT, NUTRITIONAL THERAPY, AND  NUTRITIONAL
 COUNSELING  PROVIDED  BY  A  REGISTERED  DIETICIAN  NUTRITIONIST FOR THE
 PURPOSE OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ANY FOOD INDI-
 CATED BY THE NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT  AND  THE  DELIVERY  OF  SUCH  FOOD,
 ORDERED  BY  A  HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL ACTING WITHIN HIS OR HER LAWFUL
 SCOPE OF  PRACTICE  UNDER  TITLE  EIGHT  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  WHERE
 MEDICALLY  INDICATED  FOR  AN  INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS LIMITED IN HIS OR HER
 ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING  BY  ONE  OR  MORE  CHRONIC  CONDITIONS;  AND
 PROVIDED  THAT  THERE IS FEDERAL FINANCIAL PARTICIPATION IN THE COSTS OF
 SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one hundred eighty days after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
 commissioner  of  health  shall adopt regulations and take other actions
 reasonably necessary to implement this act on that date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14666-01-8

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