Senate Bill S3470

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for reimbursement rates for certain services

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

  • 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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2023-S3470 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9386

2023-S3470 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the individual psychotherapy services provided by licensed social workers, in accordance with licensing criteria set forth in applicable regulations to which the applicable reimbursement rate is based entirely upon the ambulatory patient group methodology.

2023-S3470 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3470 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3470
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  reimbursement
   rates for certain services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Clause (C) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (f) of  subdi-
 vision  2-a  of  section  2807  of  the public health law, as amended by
 section 43 of part B of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (C)  individual  psychotherapy  services  provided  by licensed social
 workers, in accordance with licensing criteria set forth  in  applicable
 regulations[,  to  persons  under  the  age of twenty-one and to persons
 requiring such services as a result of or related to pregnancy or giving
 birth]; and
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05281-01-3

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