Bill Text: NY S07667 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S07667 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07667-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7667--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health 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 social services law, in relation to including dental
          implants,  replacement  dental  prosthetic appliances, crowns and root
          canals as medically necessary dental care and  services  for  coverage
          under the Medicaid program

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f-1) to read as follows:
     3    (f-1)  including  but  not limited to dental implants, implant-related
     4  services, dental prosthetic appliances,  replacement  dental  prosthetic
     5  appliances,  crowns  and  root  canals for posterior and anterior teeth,
     6  crown lengthening when associated with a covered crown and/or root canal
     7  if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures;
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13300-02-3