Bill Text: NY S02541 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid beyond twenty visits where the provider of the therapy or services attests to the medical necessity of the additional visits.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02541 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02541-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2541
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          extended speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid
          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 5 of part A of chapter 57 of
     3  the laws of 2018, 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  and occupational therapy each shall be limited to coverage of twenty
     8  visits per year; physical therapy shall be limited to coverage of  forty
     9  visits  per  year unless the professional at whose direction the therapy
    10  or services are provided or the provider  of  the  therapy  or  services
    11  attests  to  the medical necessity of additional visits; such limitation
    12  shall not apply to persons with developmental disabilities or,  notwith-
    13  standing  any  other  provision  of law to the contrary, to persons with
    14  traumatic brain injury;
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rules and regulations necessary for the imple-
    18  mentation  of  this  act on its effective date are authorized to be made
    19  and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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