Bill Text: NY A04543 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain facilities to provide treatment for the mental health and health care needs of individuals admitted for a substance use disorder; provides that such services shall be reimbursable by Medicaid and private insurance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A04543 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04543-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4543

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN ACT to amend the mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain  facilities  to  provide  treatment  for the mental health and
          health care needs of individuals admitted for a substance use disorder

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (f) of section 19.17 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as  amended by section 1 of part K of chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (f) There shall be in the office the facilities named  below  for  the
     5  care,  treatment  and  rehabilitation  of  the mentally disabled and for
     6  clinical research and teaching in the science and  skills  required  for
     7  the  care, treatment and rehabilitation of such mentally disabled.  Such
     8  facilities are authorized to provide treatment for the mental health and
     9  health care needs of individuals admitted for a substance use  disorder,
    10  provided, further, that the mental health and health care services shall
    11  be  reimbursable  by  Medicaid  and  private  insurance.  Mental  health
    12  services shall be provided by a professional  whose  scope  of  practice
    13  includes the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders.  Health
    14  care  services  shall  be  provided  by a health care professional whose
    15  scope of practice includes diagnosing and treating  human  responses  to
    16  actual  or  potential health problems. The office shall consult with the
    17  office of mental health and the department  of  health  to  assure  that
    18  applicable  rules  and  regulations  of such agencies are complied with.
    19  Nothing in this section shall  preclude  these  facilities  from  trans-
    20  ferring  a  person  to  a  different  facility in the event the person's
    21  mental health or health care needs are deemed to  exceed  the  treatment
    22  capacity of such facility.
    23    R.E. Blaisdell Addiction Treatment Center
    24    Bronx Addiction Treatment Center

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04849-01-3
        A. 4543                             2

     1    C.K. Post Addiction Treatment Center
     2    Creedmoor Addiction Treatment Center
     3    Dick Van Dyke Addiction Treatment Center
     4    Kingsboro Addiction Treatment Center
     5    McPike Addiction Treatment Center
     6    Richard C. Ward Addiction Treatment Center
     7    J.L. Norris Addiction Treatment Center
     8    South Beach Addiction Treatment Center
     9    St. Lawrence Addiction Treatment Center
    10    Stutzman Addiction Treatment Center
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.