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Assembly Bill A6935A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring Medicaid to cover a wearable medical device to treat certain forms of cancer

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2025-A6935 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6736
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L

2025-A6935 - Summary

Requires Medicaid to cover a wearable medical device that uses low-intensity, alternating electric fields delivered to the tumor site to treat glioblastoma and other cancers as recommended by medical and scientific evidence.

2025-A6935 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6935
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring Medi-
   caid to cover a wearable medical device  to  treat  certain  forms  of
   cancer
 
   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 (nn) to read as follows:
   (NN)  A  WEARABLE  MEDICAL DEVICE THAT USES LOW-INTENSITY, ALTERNATING
 ELECTRIC FIELDS DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO THE TUMOR SITE TO TREAT  GLIOBLAS-
 TOMA  AND  OTHER  CANCERS  AS  RECOMMENDED  BY  MEDICAL  AND  SCIENTIFIC
 EVIDENCE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
   (I) LABELED INDICATIONS FOR A MEDICAL DEVICE APPROVED  OR  CLEARED  BY
 THE FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;
   (II)  CENTERS  FOR  MEDICARE  AND  MEDICAID SERVICES NATIONAL COVERAGE
 DETERMINATIONS AND MEDICARE  ADMINISTRATIVE  CONTRACTOR  LOCAL  COVERAGE
 DETERMINATIONS; AND
   (III)  NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES SUCH AS, BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE OF THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE  CANCER  NETWORK  OR
 THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2025.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10904-01-5

2025-A6935A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6736
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L

2025-A6935A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires Medicaid to cover a wearable medical device that uses low-intensity, alternating electric fields delivered to the tumor site to treat glioblastoma and other cancers as recommended by medical and scientific evidence.

2025-A6935A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6935--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring Medi-
   caid to cover a wearable medical device  to  treat  certain  forms  of
   cancer

   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 (oo) to read as follows:
   (OO)  A  WEARABLE  MEDICAL DEVICE THAT USES LOW-INTENSITY, ALTERNATING
 ELECTRIC FIELDS DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO THE TUMOR SITE TO TREAT  GLIOBLAS-
 TOMA  AND  OTHER  CANCERS  AS  RECOMMENDED  BY  MEDICAL  AND  SCIENTIFIC
 EVIDENCE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
   (I) LABELED INDICATIONS FOR A MEDICAL DEVICE APPROVED  OR  CLEARED  BY
 THE FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;
   (II)  CENTERS  FOR  MEDICARE  AND  MEDICAID SERVICES NATIONAL COVERAGE
 DETERMINATIONS AND MEDICARE  ADMINISTRATIVE  CONTRACTOR  LOCAL  COVERAGE
 DETERMINATIONS; AND
   (III)  NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES SUCH AS, BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE OF THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE  CANCER  NETWORK  OR
 THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 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.
                                                            LBD10904-03-5

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