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Senate Bill S7679

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing medicaid coverage for a nebulizer

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2019-S7679 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S1597

2019-S7679 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing medicaid coverage for a nebulizer for eighty percent of the cost of such nebulizer.

2019-S7679 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7679 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7679
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  authorizing
   medicaid coverage for a nebulizer
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 365-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY,
 MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE SHALL INCLUDE COVERAGE FOR A NEBULIZER IF PRESCRIBED
 BY A LICENSED PHYSICIAN FOR A  MEDICAL  CONDITION,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO  ASTHMA  OR  ALLERGIES. THE TYPE AND BRAND OF SUCH NEBULIZER
 SHALL BE APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. SUCH  MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE
 SHALL BE PROVIDED FOR EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE COST OF SUCH NEBULIZER.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15204-02-0

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