Bill Text: NY A11117 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for coverage of mental health and alcohol and substance use services under the child health insurance plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - referred to health [A11117 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11117-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11117

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to coverage of mental
          health and alcohol and substance use services under the  child  health
          insurance plan

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2510 of the public health law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  428  of  the  laws  of 2013, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    7. "Covered health care services" means: the services  of  physicians,
     5  optometrists,  nurses,  nurse  practitioners, midwives and other related
     6  professional personnel  which  are  provided  on  an  outpatient  basis,
     7  including  routine well-child visits; diagnosis and treatment of illness
     8  and injury; early and periodic screening, diagnosis  and  treatment  for
     9  eligible  children  under the age of six and for other eligible children
    10  to ascertain physical and mental  disabilities;  inpatient  health  care
    11  services;  laboratory  tests;  diagnostic  x-rays; prescription and non-
    12  prescription drugs and durable  medical  equipment;  radiation  therapy;
    13  chemotherapy;  hemodialysis;  outpatient  blood clotting factor products
    14  and other treatments and services furnished in connection with the  care
    15  of  hemophilia  and other blood clotting protein deficiencies; emergency
    16  room services;  hospice  services;  emergency,  preventive  and  routine
    17  dental  care,  including  medically  necessary orthodontia but excluding
    18  cosmetic surgery; emergency, preventive and routine vision care, includ-
    19  ing eyeglasses; speech and hearing services; and, inpatient  and  outpa-
    20  tient  mental  health,  alcohol  and  substance [abuse] use services [as
    21  defined by the commissioner in consultation  with  the  superintendent].
    22  "Covered  health  care services" shall not include drugs, procedures and
    23  supplies for the treatment of erectile dysfunction when provided to,  or
    24  prescribed  for  use  by,  a person who is required to register as a sex
    25  offender pursuant to article six-C of the correction law, provided  that
    26  any  denial  of  coverage  of  such  drugs, procedures or supplies shall

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17447-01-0
        A. 11117                            2

     1  provide the patient with the means of obtaining  additional  information
     2  concerning both the denial and the means of challenging such denial.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April after it becomes
     4  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the commissioner of health shall make
     5  regulations and take other actions  reasonably  necessary  to  implement
     6  this act on that date.