Bill Text: NY S04790 | 2023-2024 | 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 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-15 - referred to ways and means [S04790 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04790-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4790

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 14, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, BROUK -- 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 (kk) to read as follows:
     3    (kk) 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 certified dietician or certified  nutritionist,
     7  including the provision of any food indicated by the nutritional assess-
     8  ment  and  the  delivery  of such food, ordered by a health care profes-
     9  sional acting within his or her lawful scope  of  practice  under  title
    10  eight  of  the  education  law,  for the purpose of treating one or more
    11  chronic conditions for an individual who is limited in his or her activ-
    12  ities of daily living; and provided  that  there  is  federal  financial
    13  participation in 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.
                                                                   LBD08048-01-3