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Assembly Bill A1931

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to including dental implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program

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2025-A1931 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3566
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8983, S7667

2025-A1931 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.

2025-A1931 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1931
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SAYEGH, WOERNER -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including dental
   implants,  replacement  dental  prosthetic appliances, crowns and root
   canals as medically necessary dental care and  services  for  coverage
   under the Medicaid program

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (f-1) to read as follows:
   (F-1)  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO DENTAL IMPLANTS, IMPLANT-RELATED
 SERVICES, DENTAL PROSTHETIC APPLIANCES,  REPLACEMENT  DENTAL  PROSTHETIC
 APPLIANCES,  CROWNS  AND  ROOT  CANALS FOR POSTERIOR AND ANTERIOR TEETH,
 CROWN LENGTHENING WHEN ASSOCIATED WITH A COVERED CROWN AND/OR ROOT CANAL
 IF A QUALIFIED DENTIST AUTHORIZES THE PROCEDURES;
   § 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.
                                                            LBD05284-01-5

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