Bill Text: NY A04846 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid beyond twenty visits where the provider of the therapy or services attests to the medical necessity of the additional visits.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A04846 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04846-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4846
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          extended speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 2  of  section  365-a  of  the
     2  social  services law, as amended by section 5 of part A of chapter 57 of
     3  the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (h) speech therapy, and when provided at the direction of a  physician
     5  or nurse practitioner, physical therapy including related rehabilitative
     6  services and occupational therapy; provided, however, that speech thera-
     7  py  and occupational therapy each shall be limited to coverage of twenty
     8  visits per year unless the professional at whose direction  the  therapy
     9  or  services  are  provided  or  the provider of the therapy or services
    10  attests to the medical necessity of additional visits; physical  therapy
    11  shall be limited to coverage of forty visits per year unless the profes-
    12  sional  at  whose  direction the therapy or services are provided or the
    13  provider of the therapy or services attests to the medical necessity  of
    14  additional  visits;  such  limitation  shall  not  apply to persons with
    15  developmental disabilities or, notwithstanding any  other  provision  of
    16  law to the contrary, to persons with traumatic brain injury;
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it  shall  have  become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the
    19  addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and  regulations  neces-
    20  sary  to  implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
    21  authorized and directed to be completed  on  or  before  such  effective
    22  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00472-01-9