Bill Text: NY A00303 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides coverage for eligible children for early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment under the child health insurance plan to ascertain physical and mental disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to ways and means [A00303 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00303-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 303--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, SEAWRIGHT, BARRON, JACKSON, GUNTHER, GALEF, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the Commit- tee on Ways and Means -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to coverage of early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment under the child health insurance plan The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2510 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 428 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 7. "Covered health care services" means: the services of physicians, 5 optometrists, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives and other related 6 professional personnel which are provided on an outpatient basis, 7 including routine well-child visits; diagnosis and treatment of illness 8 and injury; inpatient health care services; laboratory tests; diagnostic 9 x-rays; prescription and non-prescription drugs and durable medical 10 equipment; radiation therapy; chemotherapy; hemodialysis; outpatient 11 blood clotting factor products and other treatments and services 12 furnished in connection with the care of hemophilia and other blood 13 clotting protein deficiencies; emergency room services; hospice 14 services; emergency, preventive and routine dental care, including 15 medically necessary orthodontia but excluding cosmetic surgery; emergen- 16 cy, preventive and routine vision care, including eyeglasses; speech and 17 hearing services; and, inpatient and outpatient mental health, alcohol 18 and substance [abuse] use services as defined by the commissioner in EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02901-04-1A. 303--B 2 1 consultation with the superintendent (but shall include early and peri- 2 odic screening, diagnosis and treatment outpatient services approved by 3 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and authorized under 4 article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law). "Covered health care 5 services" shall not include drugs, procedures and supplies for the 6 treatment of erectile dysfunction when provided to, or prescribed for 7 use by, a person who is required to register as a sex offender pursuant 8 to article six-C of the correction law, provided that any denial of 9 coverage of such drugs, procedures or supplies shall provide the patient 10 with the means of obtaining additional information concerning both the 11 denial and the means of challenging such denial. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April after it becomes 13 a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of health shall make 14 regulations and take other actions reasonably necessary to implement 15 this act on that date.
