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Assembly Bill A4543

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain facilities to provide treatment for the mental health and health care needs of individuals admitted for a substance use disorder

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2023-A4543 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3525
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §19.17, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10211, S9087
2025-2026: A856

2023-A4543 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain facilities to provide treatment for the mental health and health care needs of individuals admitted for a substance use disorder; provides that such services shall be reimbursable by Medicaid and private insurance.

2023-A4543 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4543
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   certain  facilities  to  provide  treatment  for the mental health and
   health care needs of individuals admitted for a substance use disorder

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (f) of section 19.17 of the mental hygiene law,
 as  amended by section 1 of part K of chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (f) There shall be in the office the facilities named  below  for  the
 care,  treatment  and  rehabilitation  of  the mentally disabled and for
 clinical research and teaching in the science and  skills  required  for
 the  care, treatment and rehabilitation of such mentally disabled.  SUCH
 FACILITIES ARE AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE TREATMENT FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH AND
 HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS ADMITTED FOR A SUBSTANCE USE  DISORDER,
 PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES SHALL
 BE  REIMBURSABLE  BY  MEDICAID  AND  PRIVATE  INSURANCE.  MENTAL  HEALTH
 SERVICES SHALL BE PROVIDED BY A PROFESSIONAL  WHOSE  SCOPE  OF  PRACTICE
 INCLUDES THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS.  HEALTH
 CARE  SERVICES  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  BY A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL WHOSE
 SCOPE OF PRACTICE INCLUDES DIAGNOSING AND TREATING  HUMAN  RESPONSES  TO
 ACTUAL  OR  POTENTIAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. THE OFFICE SHALL CONSULT WITH THE
 OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND THE DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH  TO  ASSURE  THAT
 APPLICABLE  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  OF SUCH AGENCIES ARE COMPLIED WITH.
 NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL  PRECLUDE  THESE  FACILITIES  FROM  TRANS-
 FERRING  A  PERSON  TO  A  DIFFERENT  FACILITY IN THE EVENT THE PERSON'S
 MENTAL HEALTH OR HEALTH CARE NEEDS ARE DEEMED TO  EXCEED  THE  TREATMENT
 CAPACITY OF SUCH FACILITY.
   R.E. Blaisdell Addiction Treatment Center
   Bronx Addiction Treatment Center
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04849-01-3

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