Bill Text: NY S07910 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive services from a peer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-25 - referred to ways and means [S07910 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07910-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7910--A
            Cal. No. 549

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2022
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse  -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
          second report,  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement for
          non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disor-
          der to receive services from a peer

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  19.18-d to read as follows:
     3  § 19.18-d Reimbursement for peer and transportation services.
     4    The  office shall establish reimbursement rates for non-medical trans-
     5  portation for individuals with  a  substance  use  disorder  to  receive
     6  services  from  a peer certified by the office of addiction services and
     7  supports. As part of the development  of  such  rates,  the  office,  in
     8  consultation  with  the department of health, shall pursue federal Medi-
     9  caid participation and reimbursement.   The office shall  also  consider
    10  the  use  of  any federal grants, including state opioid response grants
    11  and supplemental substance abuse prevention and treatment block  grants,
    12  to  support such reimbursement. Such reimbursement rates shall be estab-
    13  lished by January first, two thousand twenty-three.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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