Bill Text: NY A00548 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the coverage of ostomy supplies in the child health plus program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A00548 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00548-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           548
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to coverage of ostomy
          supplies in the child health plus program
          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,  ostomy  supplies  and
    10  durable  medical  equipment; radiation therapy; chemotherapy; hemodialy-
    11  sis; outpatient blood clotting factor products and other treatments  and
    12  services  furnished  in connection with the care of hemophilia and other
    13  blood 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 services as defined by the commissioner in consulta-
    19  tion  with  the superintendent. "Covered health care services" shall not
    20  include drugs, procedures and supplies for  the  treatment  of  erectile
    21  dysfunction  when provided to, or prescribed for use by, a person who is
    22  required to register as a sex offender pursuant to article six-C of  the
    23  correction  law,  provided  that  any  denial of coverage of such drugs,
    24  procedures or supplies shall provide  the  patient  with  the  means  of
    25  obtaining  additional  information  concerning  both  the denial and the
    26  means of challenging such denial.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03120-01-9