Bill Text: NY A05907 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes topical oxygen wound therapy as a Medicaid benefit.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 45-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-18 - print number 5907a [A05907 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05907-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5907--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 6, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, ARROYO, COLTON, WRIGHT, BARRON, HOOPER, SIMON, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing topical oxygen wound therapy as a Medicaid benefit 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 (dd) to read as follows: 3 (dd) topical oxygen wound therapy for chronic wound management and 4 treatment, as prescribed by a physician or other qualified prescriber, 5 through use of a United States Food and Drug Administration cleared 6 topical oxygen chamber for extremities, consistent with coverage crite- 7 ria established by the commissioner. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09674-04-6
