Senate Bill S8785

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to reimbursing health care providers at the same rate for telehealth visits

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S8785 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10723
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S2989, A669

2019-S8785 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reimburses health care providers at the same rate for telehealth visits as in-person visits.

2019-S8785 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8785 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8785
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               July 15, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,in relation to reimbursing  health
   care  providers  at  the  same rate for telehealth visits as in-person
   visits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 124 of the laws of 2020, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Health  care  services  delivered  by means of telehealth shall be
 entitled to reimbursement ON THE SAME BASIS AND TO THE SAME EXTENT AS IF
 SUCH SERVICES WERE  PROVIDED  IN  PERSON  under  section  three  hundred
 sixty-seven-u  of  the social services law; provided however, reimburse-
 ment for additional  modalities,  provider  categories  and  originating
 sites  specified  in accordance with section twenty-nine hundred ninety-
 nine-ee of this article, and audio-only telephone communication  defined
 in regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision four of section twen-
 ty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this article, shall be contingent upon
 federal financial participation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16812-02-0

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