Assembly Bill A4940A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth

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

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2023-A4940 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2776
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9584

2023-A4940 - Summary

Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.

2023-A4940 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4940
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding  health-
   care  services  provided by telehealth; and to amend part V of chapter
   57 of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law and  the  insur-
   ance  law  relating  to  reimbursement  for  commercial  and  Medicaid
   services provided via telehealth, in  relation  to  the  effectiveness
   thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health  law,
 as  amended by section 2 of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Health care services delivered by  means  of  telehealth  shall  be
 entitled  to  reimbursement under section three hundred sixty-seven-u of
 the social services law on the same basis, at the same rate, and to  the
 same  extent  the  equivalent services, as may be defined in regulations
 promulgated by  the  commissioner,  are  reimbursed  when  delivered  in
 person;  provided, however, that health care services delivered by means
 of telehealth shall not require reimbursement to a  telehealth  provider
 for  certain  costs, including but not limited to facility fees or costs
 reimbursed through ambulatory patient groups or other clinic  reimburse-
 ment  methodologies  set  forth in section twenty-eight hundred seven of
 this chapter, if such costs were not incurred in the provision of  tele-
 health services due to neither the originating site nor the distant site
 occurring  within  a  facility  or  other  clinic  setting;  and further
 provided, however, reimbursement  for  additional  modalities,  provider
 categories  and  originating  sites specified in accordance with section
 twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-ee of this article, and audio-only tele-
 phone communication  defined  in  regulations  promulgated  pursuant  to
 subdivision  four  of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02426-01-3
              

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2023-A4940A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2776
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9584

2023-A4940A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.

2023-A4940A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4940--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. WOERNER, McDONALD -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the  Committee  on  Environ-
   mental  Conservation  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee

 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding health-
   care services provided by telehealth
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law,
 as amended by section 2 of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  Health  care  services  delivered  by means of telehealth shall be
 entitled to reimbursement under section three hundred  sixty-seven-u  of
 the  social services law on the same basis, at the same rate, and to the
 same extent the equivalent services, as may be  defined  in  regulations
 promulgated  by  the  commissioner,  are  reimbursed  when  delivered in
 person; provided, however, that health care services delivered by  means
 of  telehealth  shall not require reimbursement to a telehealth provider
 for certain costs, including but not limited to facility fees  or  costs
 reimbursed  through ambulatory patient groups or other clinic reimburse-
 ment methodologies set forth in section twenty-eight  hundred  seven  of
 this  chapter, if such costs were not incurred in the provision of tele-
 health services due to neither the originating site nor the distant site
 occurring within  a  facility  or  other  clinic  setting;  and  further
 provided,  however,  reimbursement  for  additional modalities, provider
 categories and originating sites specified in  accordance  with  section
 twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-ee of this article, and audio-only tele-
 phone  communication  defined  in  regulations  promulgated  pursuant to
 subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc  of  this
 article,  shall  be  contingent  upon  federal  financial participation.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02426-03-4
              

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