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A06334 Summary:

BILL NOA06334
 
SAME ASSAME AS S00354
 
SPONSORWoerner
 
COSPNSRMcDonald
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L
 
Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.
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A06334 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6334
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 4, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding  health-
          care services provided by telehealth
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health  law,
     2  as  amended by section 2 of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. Health care services delivered by  means  of  telehealth  shall  be
     5  entitled  to  reimbursement under section three hundred sixty-seven-u of
     6  the social services law on the same basis, at the same rate, and to  the
     7  same  extent  the  equivalent services, as may be defined in regulations
     8  promulgated by  the  commissioner,  are  reimbursed  when  delivered  in
     9  person;  provided, however, that health care services delivered by means
    10  of telehealth shall not require reimbursement to a  telehealth  provider
    11  for  certain  costs, including but not limited to facility fees or costs
    12  reimbursed through ambulatory patient groups or other clinic  reimburse-
    13  ment  methodologies  set  forth in section twenty-eight hundred seven of
    14  this chapter, if such costs were not incurred in the provision of  tele-
    15  health services due to neither the originating site nor the distant site
    16  occurring  within  a  facility  or  other  clinic  setting;  and further
    17  provided, however, reimbursement  for  additional  modalities,  provider
    18  categories  and  originating  sites specified in accordance with section
    19  twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-ee of this article, and audio-only tele-
    20  phone communication  defined  in  regulations  promulgated  pursuant  to
    21  subdivision  four  of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this
    22  article, shall  be  contingent  upon  federal  financial  participation.
    23  Notwithstanding   the  provisions  of  this  subdivision,  for  services
    24  licensed, certified or otherwise authorized pursuant to article sixteen,
    25  article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law, such
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00659-01-5

        A. 6334                             2
 
     1  services provided by telehealth[, as deemed appropriate by the  relevant
     2  commissioner,]  shall be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or
     3  fees established by law, or otherwise established or  certified  by  the
     4  office  for  people  with  developmental  disabilities, office of mental
     5  health, or the office of addiction services  and  supports  pursuant  to
     6  article forty-three of the mental hygiene law, unless a specific service
     7  is deemed inappropriate by the relevant commissioner.
     8    §  2.    This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
    10  1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law made  by  section  one  of
    11  this  act  shall not affect the expiration of such subdivision and shall
    12  be deemed to expire therewith.
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