Bill Text: NY A02794 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A02794 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2794
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical  assist-
          ance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther-
          apy for the purpose of disease management
          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 (ff) to read as follows:
     3    (ff)  medically  tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy. As used
     4  in this paragraph, "medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther-
     5  apy" means nutritional assessment, nutritional therapy, and  nutritional
     6  counseling  provided  by  a  registered  dietician  nutritionist for the
     7  purpose of disease management, including the provision of any food indi-
     8  cated by the nutritional assessment  and  the  delivery  of  such  food,
     9  ordered  by  a  health care professional acting within his or her lawful
    10  scope of  practice  under  title  eight  of  the  education  law,  where
    11  medically  indicated  for  an  individual  who  is limited in his or her
    12  activities of daily living  by  one  or  more  chronic  conditions;  and
    13  provided  that  there is federal financial participation in the costs of
    14  services provided under this paragraph.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    17  ly, the commissioner of health shall adopt regulations  and  take  other
    18  actions reasonably necessary to implement this act on that date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03807-01-9
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