Bill Text: NY A00997 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits availability and coverage for non-invasive prenatal testing for Medicaid patients based on age if such limits are recommended by the United States food and drug administration, the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, or the United States department of health and human services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-03 - signed chap.41 [A00997 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00997-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           997

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to limiting  avail-
          ability  and  coverage  for non-invasive prenatal testing for medicaid
          patients based on age if such limits are  recommended  by  the  United
          States  food  and  drug  administration,  the centers for Medicare and
          medicaid services, or the United States department of health and human
          services

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 1 of section 365-k of the
     2  social services law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending
     3  the social services law relating to increasing  access  to  non-invasive
     4  prenatal  testing  under  medicaid,  as  proposed  in  legislative bills
     5  numbers S. 8157 and A. 8604, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (b) The standards and guidelines established under  this  section  for
     7  providing non-invasive prenatal testing shall not limit availability and
     8  coverage for a test based on the age of the pregnant patient, unless the
     9  limit  is  explicitly  called for by the generally accepted standards of
    10  professional practice or is otherwise  recommended  by  safety  communi-
    11  cations  or  guidance issued by the United States food and drug adminis-
    12  tration, the centers for Medicare and medicaid services, or  the  United
    13  States department of health and human services.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    15  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending  the  social  services
    16  law relating to increasing access to non-invasive prenatal testing under
    17  medicaid,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8157 and A. 8604,
    18  takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03984-01-3