Assembly Bill A8104

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the coverage of air ambulance services in the child health plus program

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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-A8104 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7161
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2510, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1691, S959

2021-A8104 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the coverage of air ambulance services in the child health plus program.

2021-A8104 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8104
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to coverage of air
   ambulance transport in the child health plus program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 2510 of the public health law, as
 amended by chapter 428 of the laws  of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   7.  "Covered  health care services" means: the services of physicians,
 optometrists, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives  and  other  related
 professional  personnel  which  are  provided  on  an  outpatient basis,
 including routine well-child visits; diagnosis and treatment of  illness
 and injury; inpatient health care services; laboratory tests; diagnostic
 x-rays;  prescription  and  non-prescription  drugs  and durable medical
 equipment; radiation  therapy;  chemotherapy;  hemodialysis;  outpatient
 blood  clotting  factor  products  and  other  treatments  and  services
 furnished in connection with the care  of  hemophilia  and  other  blood
 clotting  protein  deficiencies;  emergency room services; AIR AMBULANCE
 SERVICES; hospice services; emergency,  preventive  and  routine  dental
 care,  including  medically necessary orthodontia but excluding cosmetic
 surgery;  emergency,  preventive  and  routine  vision  care,  including
 eyeglasses;  speech  and hearing services; and, inpatient and outpatient
 mental health, alcohol and substance abuse services as  defined  by  the
 commissioner  in  consultation  with the superintendent. "Covered health
 care services" shall not include drugs, procedures and supplies for  the
 treatment  of  erectile  dysfunction when provided to, or prescribed for
 use by, a person who is required to register as a sex offender  pursuant
 to  article  six-C  of  the  correction law, provided that any denial of
 coverage of such drugs, procedures or supplies shall provide the patient
 with the means of obtaining additional information concerning  both  the
 denial and the means of challenging such denial.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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