Bill Text: NY A10190 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires managed care providers and the medical assistance program shall cover prescription drugs approved by the federal food and drug administration for chronic weight management in adults with obesity with at least one weight-related condition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - referred to health [A10190 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10190-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10190

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Blumencranz)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to expanding access
          to  prescription  drugs approved by the FDA for chronic weight manage-
          ment

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

     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  368-g to read as follows:
     3    § 368-g. Chronic weight management  prescription  drug  accessibility.
     4  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law  to  the contrary, managed care
     5  providers and the medical assistance program  shall  cover  prescription
     6  drugs  approved  by the federal food and drug administration for chronic
     7  weight management in adults with obesity with at least one weight-relat-
     8  ed condition.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15451-01-4
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