Bill Text: NY A04940 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - print number 4940a [A04940 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04940-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - print number 4940a [A04940 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04940-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4940 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding health- care services provided by telehealth; and to amend part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law and the insur- ance law relating to reimbursement for commercial and Medicaid services provided via telehealth, in relation to the effectiveness thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law, 2 as amended by section 2 of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. Health care services delivered by means of telehealth shall be 5 entitled to reimbursement under section three hundred sixty-seven-u of 6 the social services law on the same basis, at the same rate, and to the 7 same extent the equivalent services, as may be defined in regulations 8 promulgated by the commissioner, are reimbursed when delivered in 9 person; provided, however, that health care services delivered by means 10 of telehealth shall not require reimbursement to a telehealth provider 11 for certain costs, including but not limited to facility fees or costs 12 reimbursed through ambulatory patient groups or other clinic reimburse- 13 ment methodologies set forth in section twenty-eight hundred seven of 14 this chapter, if such costs were not incurred in the provision of tele- 15 health services due to neither the originating site nor the distant site 16 occurring within a facility or other clinic setting; and further 17 provided, however, reimbursement for additional modalities, provider 18 categories and originating sites specified in accordance with section 19 twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-ee of this article, and audio-only tele- 20 phone communication defined in regulations promulgated pursuant to 21 subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02426-01-3A. 4940 2 1 article, shall be contingent upon federal financial participation. 2 Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, for services 3 licensed, certified or otherwise authorized pursuant to article sixteen, 4 article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law, such 5 services provided by telehealth[, as deemed appropriate by the relevant6commissioner,] shall be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or 7 fees established by law, or otherwise established or certified by the 8 office for people with developmental disabilities, office of mental 9 health, or the office of addiction services and supports pursuant to 10 article forty-three of the mental hygiene law, unless a specific service 11 is deemed inappropriate by the relevant commissioner. 12 § 2. Section 7 of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022 amending 13 the public health law and the insurance law relating to reimbursement 14 for commercial and Medicaid services provided via telehealth is amended 15 to read as follows: 16 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to 17 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022[;18provided, however, this act shall expire and be deemed repealed on and19after April 1, 2024]. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 21 section one of this act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it 22 shall have become a law.