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Assembly Bill A9328

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands Medicaid coverage to include pharmacological treatment for hyperhidrosis

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2025-A9328 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L

2025-A9328 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands Medicaid coverage to include pharmacological treatment for hyperhidrosis when such treatment is ordered by a physician, registered physician assistant, or registered nurse practitioner; provides that the provisions shall not take effect unless all necessary approvals under federal law and regulation have been obtained to receive federal financial participation in the costs.

2025-A9328 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9328
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to expanding Medi-
   caid coverage to include pharmacological treatment for hyperhidrosis
 
   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) PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT FOR HYPERHIDROSIS, WHEN SUCH  TREATMENT
 IS ORDERED BY A PHYSICIAN, REGISTERED PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, OR REGISTERED
 NURSE PRACTITIONER; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARA-
 GRAPH SHALL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNLESS ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS UNDER FEDERAL
 LAW  AND  REGULATION  HAVE  BEEN  OBTAINED  TO RECEIVE FEDERAL FINANCIAL
 PARTICIPATION IN THE COSTS OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROVIDED PURSUANT  TO
 THIS  PARAGRAPH.  NOTHING IN THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO MODIFY
 ANY LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR SCOPE OF PRACTICE PROVISION UNDER  TITLE
 EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14125-01-5

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