Bill Text: NY S04536 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-17 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04536 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04536-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4536--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders in accordance with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement for
          non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disor-
          der to receive peer support services

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

     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  19.18-d to read as follows:
     3  § 19.18-d Reimbursement for transportation to peer support services.
     4    The office shall establish reimbursement rates for non-medical  trans-
     5  portation  for  individuals  with  a  substance  use disorder to receive
     6  services from a peer certified by the office of addiction  services  and
     7  supports.  As  part  of  the  development  of such rates, the office, in
     8  consultation with the department of health, shall pursue  federal  Medi-
     9  caid  participation  and reimbursement.   The office shall also consider
    10  the use of any federal grants, including state  opioid  response  grants
    11  and  supplemental substance abuse prevention and treatment block grants,
    12  to support such reimbursement. Such reimbursement rates shall be  estab-
    13  lished by April first, two thousand twenty-five.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    16  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    17  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    18  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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