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
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                                          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-
     8  cient  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 as
    15  determinations  of  when  sufficient  medical evidence exists to warrant
    16  committee 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.
                                                                   LBD15056-01-6

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     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.
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