Bill Text: NY S07485 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to provide contingency management services, including financial incentives, for persons with addiction disorders who abstain from substance abuse and comply with treatment objectives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-11 - PRINT NUMBER 7485A [S07485 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07485-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7485--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE October 27, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law and the social services law, in relation to establishing contingency management services for certain persons with substance use disorders The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 19.03 of the mental hygiene law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. "Contingency management services" means addiction disorder 4 services, including digital therapeutics prescribed by a healthcare 5 professional, for persons with a substance use disorder that provides 6 individuals with a financial incentive or positive reinforcement to 7 abstain from substance use, by rewarding specified behaviors, including, 8 but not limited to continued evidence of negative urinalysis, engagement 9 in treatment, and other behavior which adheres to treatment goals. 10 § 2. Section 19.17 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a 11 new subdivision (h) to read as follows: 12 (h) (1) The office shall, in coordination with the department of 13 health and the New York state conference of local mental hygiene direc- 14 tors, establish a program to provide contingency management services, as 15 defined in subdivision three of section 19.03 of this article for 16 persons eligible for medical assistance under title eleven of article 17 five of the social services law for individuals in recovery for 18 substance use disorder. 19 (2) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, incentives or 20 rewards for contingency management services received by an individual 21 pursuant to this subdivision shall not be considered income or resources EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13325-03-2S. 7485--A 2 1 of an individual for the purposes of any determinations of eligibility 2 for any other state program or benefit, including but not limited to the 3 medical assistance program, any state or federal program, or any other 4 means-tested program or benefit. 5 (3) In developing the program under paragraph one of this subdivision, 6 the office shall ensure that incentives or rewards for contingency 7 management services are used for the intended purposes and not diverted 8 for other uses. The office shall develop a plan to monitor the program 9 for fraud and misuse of contingency management incentives and rewards. 10 (4) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the commissioner, 11 in collaboration with the commissioner of health, shall, to the extent 12 necessary, develop and submit any appropriate waivers for implementation 13 of this program, including, but not limited to, those authorized pursu- 14 ant to sections eleven hundred fifteen and nineteen hundred fifteen of 15 the federal social security act, or successor provisions, and any other 16 waivers necessary to achieve the purposes of high quality, integrated, 17 and cost effective care and integrated financial eligibility policies 18 under the medical assistance program or pursuant to title XVIII of the 19 federal social security act. Copies of such original waiver applications 20 shall be provided to the chair of the senate finance committee and the 21 chair of the assembly ways and means committee simultaneously with their 22 submission to the federal government. 23 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law is 24 amended by adding a new paragraph (jj) to read as follows: 25 (jj) contingency management services and supports provided pursuant to 26 article nineteen of the mental hygiene law. 27 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 28 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 29 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 30 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 31 completed on or before such effective date.