STATE OF NEW YORK
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1222
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, LATIMER -- 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 requiring Medi-
caid coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for aller-
gies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 365-o to read as follows:
3 § 365-o. Allergy testing coverage. The commissioner shall establish
4 standards and guidelines, consistent with National Institutes of Health
5 guidelines and other current medical professional guidance and litera-
6 ture, including updating its provider bulletins, as necessary, to refer-
7 ence the most current professional literature and guidance related to
8 allergy testing for the provision of allergy testing under the medical
9 assistance program. Consistent with such professional literature and
10 guidance, such standards, guidelines and coverage policies shall treat
11 serologic-specific IgE tests and percutaneous skin tests as equivalent
12 confirmatory tests in terms of their sensitivity and accuracy, and shall
13 treat them as medically necessary for those individuals with a medical
14 history consistent with any of the following:
15 (a) an inhalant allergy;
16 (b) a food allergy;
17 (c) hymenoptera venom allergy or an allergy to stinging insects;
18 (d) allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA);
19 (e) certain parasitic diseases; and
20 (f) allergies to specific drugs.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect the first of July next succeeding the
22 date upon which it shall become a law; provided that, effective imme-
23 diately, the commissioner of health shall promulgate all rules and regu-
24 lations deemed necessary and desirable to implement the provisions of
25 this act on or before its effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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