Assembly Bill A6334

                             
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                                   6334
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2025
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 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
 
   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.
 Notwithstanding   the  provisions  of  this  subdivision,  for  services
 licensed, certified or otherwise authorized pursuant to article sixteen,
 article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law, such
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 services provided by telehealth[, as deemed appropriate by the  relevant
 commissioner,]  shall be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or
 fees established by law, or otherwise established or  certified  by  the
 office  for  people  with  developmental  disabilities, office of mental
 health, or the office of addiction services  and  supports  pursuant  to
 article forty-three of the mental hygiene law, UNLESS A SPECIFIC SERVICE
 IS DEEMED INAPPROPRIATE BY THE RELEVANT COMMISSIONER.
   §  2.    This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law made  by  section  one  of
 this  act  shall not affect the expiration of such subdivision and shall
 be deemed to expire therewith.