assembly Bill A10404A

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Includes audio-only and video-only telehealth and telemedicine services in those telehealth and telemedicine services eligible for reimbursement

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S8416 - Signed by Governor


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    • Passed Senate
    • Passed Assembly
  • Delivered to Governor
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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 17, 2020 signed chap.124
Jun 05, 2020 delivered to governor
May 27, 2020 returned to senate
passed assembly
ordered to third reading rules cal.38
substituted for a10404a
May 27, 2020 substituted by s8416
rules report cal.38
reported
May 26, 2020 reported referred to rules
May 24, 2020 print number 10404a
May 24, 2020 amend and recommit to health
May 04, 2020 referred to health

Votes

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May 26, 2020 - Health committee Vote

S8416
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committee
15
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Nay
0
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
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Abstained
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May 24, 2020 - Rules committee Vote

S8416
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committee
18
Aye
0
Nay
1
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
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Abstained
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A10404 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8416
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2999-cc, 2999-ee & 2999-dd, Pub Health L

A10404 - Summary

Includes audio-only and video-only telehealth and telemedicine services in those telehealth and telemedicine services eligible for reimbursement.

A10404 - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                  10404

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 4, 2020
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  including  audio-
  only  and  video-only  telehealth  and  telemedicine services in those
  telehealth and telemedicine services eligible for reimbursement

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

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  4  and  5  of section 2999-cc of the public
health law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2015,  are  amended  to
read as follows:
  4.  "Telehealth"  means the use of electronic information and communi-
cation technologies by  telehealth  providers  to  deliver  health  care
services,  which  shall include the assessment, diagnosis, consultation,
treatment,  education,  care  management  and/or  self-management  of  a
patient.  Telehealth  shall not include delivery of health care services
by means of [audio-only telephone communication,] facsimile machines, or
electronic messaging alone, though use  of  these  technologies  is  not
precluded  if  used  in conjunction with telemedicine, store and forward
technology, or remote patient monitoring. For purposes of this  section,
telehealth shall be limited to telemedicine, store and forward technolo-
gy,  and  remote patient monitoring. This subdivision shall not preclude
the delivery of health care services by means of  "home  telehealth"  as
used in section thirty-six hundred fourteen of this chapter.
  5.  "Telemedicine"  means  the  use of synchronous, two-way electronic
audio AND/OR visual  communications  to  deliver  clinical  health  care
services,  which  shall include the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment
of a patient, while such patient is at the originating site and a  tele-
health provider is at a distant site.
  §  2.  Section 2999-ee of the public health law, as added by section 3
of part HH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  §  2999-ee.  Increased application of telehealth. In order to increase
the application of telehealth in behavioral health, oral health,  mater-
nity  care, care management, services provided in emergency departments,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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A10404A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8416
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2999-cc, 2999-ee & 2999-dd, Pub Health L

A10404A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes audio-only and video-only telehealth and telemedicine services in those telehealth and telemedicine services eligible for reimbursement.

A10404A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                10404--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 4, 2020
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- 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 public health law, in relation to including audio-
  only and video-only telehealth  and  telemedicine  services  in  those
  telehealth and telemedicine services eligible for reimbursement

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2999-cc of the public health  law,
as  added  by  chapter  6  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
follows:
  4. "Telehealth" means the use of electronic information  and  communi-
cation  technologies  by  telehealth  providers  to  deliver health care
services, which shall include the assessment,  diagnosis,  consultation,
treatment,  education,  care  management  and/or  self-management  of  a
patient. Telehealth shall not include delivery of health  care  services
by means of [audio-only telephone communication,] facsimile machines, or
electronic  messaging  alone,  though  use  of these technologies is not
precluded if used in conjunction with telemedicine,  store  and  forward
technology,  or remote patient monitoring. For purposes of this section,
telehealth shall be limited to telemedicine, store and forward technolo-
gy, [and] remote patient monitoring AND  AUDIO-ONLY  TELEPHONE  COMMUNI-
CATION,  EXCEPT  THAT  WITH  RESPECT  TO  THE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES
LAW, AND THE CHILD HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN UNDER TITLE  ONE-A  OF  ARTICLE
TWENTY-FIVE  OF  THIS CHAPTER, TELEHEALTH SHALL INCLUDE AUDIO-ONLY TELE-
PHONE COMMUNICATION ONLY TO THE EXTENT DEFINED IN REGULATIONS AS MAY  BE
PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER. This subdivision shall not preclude the
delivery  of  health care services by means of "home telehealth" as used
in section thirty-six hundred fourteen of this chapter.
  § 2. Section 2999-ee of the public health law, as added by  section  3
of  part  HH  of  chapter  56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
follows:

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