Bill Text: NY A02794 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A02794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02794-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2794--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee 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 medical assist-
          ance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther-
          apy for the purpose of disease management
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (ff) to read as follows:
     3    (ff) medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy.  As  used
     4  in this paragraph, "medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther-
     5  apy"  means nutritional assessment, nutritional therapy, and nutritional
     6  counseling provided by a registered  dietician  nutritionist,  including
     7  the  provision  of  any food indicated by the nutritional assessment and
     8  the delivery of such food, ordered by a health care professional  acting
     9  within  his  or  her  lawful  scope of practice under title eight of the
    10  education law, for the purpose of treating one or  more  chronic  condi-
    11  tions for an individual who is limited in his or her activities of daily
    12  living;  and  provided  that there is federal financial participation in
    13  the costs of services provided under this paragraph.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the  commissioner  of
    16  health  shall adopt regulations and take other actions reasonably neces-
    17  sary to implement this act on that date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03807-02-9
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