Bill Text: NY A01151 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-18 - print number 1151b [A01151 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01151-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1151

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. McDONALD, WOERNER -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        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 services from a peer

          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 peer and transportation 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 January first, two thousand twenty-four.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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