Bill Text: NY S03470 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands the individual psychotherapy services provided by licensed social workers, in accordance with licensing criteria set forth in applicable regulations to which the applicable reimbursement rate is based entirely upon the ambulatory patient group methodology.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03470 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S03470-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3470 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 31, 2023 ___________ 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 public health law, in relation to reimbursement rates for certain services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Clause (C) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (f) of subdi- 2 vision 2-a of section 2807 of the public health law, as amended by 3 section 43 of part B of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010, is amended to 4 read as follows: 5 (C) individual psychotherapy services provided by licensed social 6 workers, in accordance with licensing criteria set forth in applicable 7 regulations[, to persons under the age of twenty-one and to persons8requiring such services as a result of or related to pregnancy or giving9birth]; and 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05281-01-3
