Bill Text: NY S08715 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9018 [S08715 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S08715-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8715 IN SENATE March 4, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. 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 authorizing licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (gg) of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the 2 social services law, as amended by chapter 97 of the laws of 2022, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (gg) care and services provided by mental health counselors [and], 5 marriage and family therapists, and creative arts therapists licensed 6 pursuant to article one hundred sixty-three of the education law acting 7 within their scope of practice, where such services would otherwise be 8 covered under this title. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed 9 to modify or expand the scope of practice of a mental health counselor 10 [or], marriage and family therapist, or creative arts therapist licensed 11 pursuant to article one hundred sixty-three of the education law. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14137-01-4
