Bill Text: NY A06363 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for increasing the applicability of brand name and generic prescription drugs and other medical services, except diagnostic services, co-payments for medicaid recipients.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - print number 6363a [A06363 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06363-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6363--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 20, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, RAIA, GOODELL -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.  DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, HOOPER, MAGEE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Health
          in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medicaid co-pay-
          ments for prescription drugs and other services
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 6  of  section  367-a  of  the
     2  social services law, as amended by section 15 of part B of chapter 57 of
     3  the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Co-payments  shall apply to all eligible persons for the services
     5  defined in paragraph (d) of this subdivision with the exception of:
     6    (i) [individuals under twenty-one years of age;
     7    (ii) pregnant women;
     8    (iii)] individuals who are inpatients in a medical facility  who  have
     9  been  required  to  spend  all  of their income for medical care, except
    10  their personal needs allowance or residents of community based  residen-
    11  tial facilities licensed by the office of mental health or the office of
    12  mental retardation and developmental disabilities who have been required
    13  to spend all of their income, except their personal needs allowance;
    14    [(iv)  individuals  enrolled  in  health  maintenance organizations or
    15  other entities which provide comprehensive  health  services,  or  other
    16  managed care programs for services covered by such programs, except that
    17  such  persons,  other  than  persons otherwise exempted from co-payments
    18  pursuant to subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii) and (v)  of  this  paragraph,
    19  and  other  than  those  persons  enrolled  in  a managed long term care
    20  program, shall be subject to co-payments as  described  in  subparagraph
    21  (v) of paragraph (d) of this subdivision;

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