Bill Text: NY S07433 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands the authority of the Medicaid evidence-based benefit review advisory committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-09 - referred to health [S07433 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07433-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7433 IN SENATE April 29, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 the Medicaid evidence-based benefit review advisory committee The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 365-d of the social services law, 2 as added by section 46-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2015, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 5. The committee shall consider any matter regarding material changes 5 in the coverage status of a particular item, health technology or 6 service, and any matter relative to new health technology assessment or 7 medical evidence review [for which the department determines a suffi-8cient body of evidence exists to warrant committee deliberation]. The 9 commissioner shall provide members of the committee with any evidence or 10 information related to the health technology or medical service assess- 11 ment including but not limited to, information submitted by members of 12 the public. The department shall report to the committee and make avail- 13 able on the department website quarterly any programmatic changes to 14 benefits that do not rise to the level of a material change[, as well as15determinations of when sufficient medical evidence exists to warrant16committee deliberations]. The commissioner shall provide forty-five days 17 public notice on the department's website prior to any meeting of the 18 committee to develop recommendations concerning health technology or 19 medical service coverage determinations. Such notice shall include a 20 description of the proposed health technology or service to be reviewed, 21 the conditions or diseases impacted by the health technology or service, 22 the proposals to be considered by the committee, and the systematic 23 evidence-based assessment prepared in accordance with this subdivision. 24 The committee shall allow interested parties a reasonable opportunity to 25 make an oral presentation to the committee related to the health tech- 26 nology or service to be reviewed and to submit written information. The 27 committee shall consider any information provided by any interested 28 party, including, but not limited to, health care providers, health care EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15056-01-6S. 7433 2 1 facilities, patients, consumers and manufacturers. For all health tech- 2 nologies or services selected for review, the department shall conduct 3 or commission a systematic evidence-based assessment of the health tech- 4 nology's or service's safety and clinical efficacy. The assessment shall 5 use established systematic review elements, study quality assessment, 6 and data synthesis. Upon completion, the systematic, evidence-based 7 assessment shall be made available to the public. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.