Bill Text: NY S02989 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Reimburses health care providers at the same rate for telephonic and telehealth visits as in-person visits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02989 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02989-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2989--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursing health
          care  providers  at the same rate for telephonic and telehealth visits
          as in-person visits

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 124 of the laws of 2020, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  Health  care  services delivered by means of telehealth, including
     5  audio-only telephone communications as defined in regulations promulgat-
     6  ed pursuant to subdivision four of section twenty-nine  hundred  ninety-
     7  nine-cc  of this article, shall be entitled to reimbursement on the same
     8  basis and to the same extent as if such services were provided in person
     9  under section three hundred sixty-seven-u of the  social  services  law;
    10  provided  however,  reimbursement  for  additional  modalities, provider
    11  categories and originating sites specified in  accordance  with  section
    12  twenty-nine  hundred  ninety-nine-ee  of  this  article, [and audio-only
    13  telephone communication defined in regulations promulgated  pursuant  to
    14  subdivision  four  of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this
    15  article,] shall be contingent upon federal financial participation.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00290-02-1