Assembly Bill A6224

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes medicaid coverage for a nebulizer

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  • 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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2021-A6224 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1597
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S7679

2021-A6224 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes medicaid coverage for a nebulizer for eighty percent of the cost of such nebulizer.

2021-A6224 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6224
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   medicaid coverage for a nebulizer
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 365-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY,
 MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE SHALL INCLUDE COVERAGE FOR A NEBULIZER IF PRESCRIBED
 BY A LICENSED PHYSICIAN FOR A  MEDICAL  CONDITION,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO  ASTHMA  OR  ALLERGIES. THE TYPE AND BRAND OF SUCH NEBULIZER
 SHALL BE APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. SUCH  MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE
 SHALL BE PROVIDED FOR EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE COST OF SUCH NEBULIZER.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06157-01-1

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