Bill Text: NY A08515 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Eliminates the 20 visits per year limit on medical assistance coverage for speech, physical and occupational therapies to persons with traumatic brain injury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-24 - substituted by s5851 [A08515 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A08515-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8515
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 23, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the provision of
speech therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy to recipi-
ents of medical assistance
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 27 of part H of chapter 59 of
3 the laws of 2011, 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, physical therapy and occupational therapy each shall be limited to
8 coverage of twenty visits per year; such limitation shall not apply to
9 persons with developmental disabilities OR, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER
10 PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, TO PERSONS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN
11 INJURY;
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
13 manner as section 27 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011 takes
14 effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13220-01-1
