Bill Text: NY A04846 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows for speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid beyond twenty visits where the provider of the therapy or services attests to the medical necessity of the additional visits.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A04846 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04846-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4846 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing extended speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the 2 social services law, as amended by section 5 of part A of chapter 57 of 3 the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 4 (h) speech therapy, and when provided at the direction of a physician 5 or nurse practitioner, physical therapy including related rehabilitative 6 services and occupational therapy; provided, however, that speech thera- 7 py and occupational therapy each shall be limited to coverage of twenty 8 visits per year unless the professional at whose direction the therapy 9 or services are provided or the provider of the therapy or services 10 attests to the medical necessity of additional visits; physical therapy 11 shall be limited to coverage of forty visits per year unless the profes- 12 sional at whose direction the therapy or services are provided or the 13 provider of the therapy or services attests to the medical necessity of 14 additional visits; such limitation shall not apply to persons with 15 developmental disabilities or, notwithstanding any other provision of 16 law to the contrary, to persons with traumatic brain injury; 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 18 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the 19 addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations neces- 20 sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are 21 authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective 22 date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00472-01-9