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]
Download: New_York-2019-A02794-Introduced.html
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]
Download: New_York-2019-A02794-Introduced.html
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