Assembly Bill A3364

                             
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                                   3364
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Insurance
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance  law,  in relation to setting minimum
   reimbursement for mobile crisis intervention services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (I)  of  paragraph  35 of subsection (i) of
 section 3216 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new  item  (vi)
 to read as follows:
   (VI)  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR  COVERED SERVICES PROVIDED BY A MOBILE CRISIS
 INTERVENTION SERVICES PROVIDER SHALL BE AT A RATE THAT IS NOT LESS  THAN
 THE  RATE  THAT  WOULD BE PAID FOR SUCH SERVICES PURSUANT TO THE MEDICAL
 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM UNDER TITLE ELEVEN OF  ARTICLE  FIVE  OF  THE  SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW.
   § 2. Subparagraph (I) of paragraph 5 of subsection (l) of section 3221
 of  the  insurance  law  is amended by adding a new item (vi) to read as
 follows:
   (VI) REIMBURSEMENT FOR COVERED SERVICES PROVIDED BY  A  MOBILE  CRISIS
 INTERVENTION  SERVICES PROVIDER SHALL BE AT A RATE THAT IS NOT LESS THAN
 THE RATE THAT WOULD BE PAID FOR SUCH SERVICES PURSUANT  TO  THE  MEDICAL
 ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  UNDER  TITLE  ELEVEN  OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW.
   § 3. Paragraph 10 of subsection (g) of section 4303 of  the  insurance
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as follows:
   (F)  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR  COVERED  SERVICES PROVIDED BY A MOBILE CRISIS
 INTERVENTION SERVICES PROVIDER SHALL BE AT A RATE THAT IS NOT LESS  THAN
 THE  RATE  THAT  WOULD BE PAID FOR SUCH SERVICES PURSUANT TO THE MEDICAL
 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM UNDER TITLE ELEVEN OF  ARTICLE  FIVE  OF  THE  SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW.
   §  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as subpart A of part II of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023,  takes
 effect, and shall apply to policies and contracts issued, renewed, modi-
 fied, altered, or amended on and after such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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