Bill Text: NY A08358 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the payment for services at addiction treatment centers operated by the office of addiction services and supports; requires that services shall not be refused at such centers if a person is unable to pay.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [A08358 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08358-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8358

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 20, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the payment for
          services at addiction treatment centers  operated  by  the  office  of
          addiction services and supports

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

     1    Section 1. Section 25.17 of the mental  hygiene  law,  as  amended  by
     2  section  12  of  part G of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4  § 25.17 Fees for services.
     5    Voluntary agencies and programs operated by local  governmental  units
     6  funded in whole or in part by the office shall establish, subject to the
     7  approval  of the office, fee schedules for substance use disorder and/or
     8  compulsive gambling services, including for such services  at  addiction
     9  treatment  centers  operated  by  the  office  of addiction services and
    10  supports, not specifically covered by the rates established pursuant  to
    11  article  twenty-eight  of  the public health law or title two of article
    12  five of the  social  services  law.  Such  fees  shall  be  charged  for
    13  substance  use disorder and/or compulsive gambling services furnished to
    14  persons who are financially able to pay the same,  provided,  that  such
    15  services  shall  not  be  refused  to  any  person because of his or her
    16  inability to pay therefor.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13093-01-1