Bill Text: NY S03458 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-10 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S03458 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3458
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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, including
     7  the provision of any food indicated by the  nutritional  assessment  and
     8  the  delivery of such food, ordered by a health care professional acting
     9  within his or her lawful scope of practice  under  title  eight  of  the
    10  education  law,  for  the purpose of treating one or more chronic condi-
    11  tions for an individual who is limited in his or her activities of daily
    12  living; and provided that there is federal  financial  participation  in
    13  the costs of services provided under this paragraph.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
    16  health shall adopt regulations and take other actions reasonably  neces-
    17  sary to implement this act on that date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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