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                                   1691
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
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 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 section 1 of part DDD of chapter 56 of the laws of  2022,  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,  ostomy  and  other
 medical supplies  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;  ambulance  services;  hospice
 services;  emergency,  preventive  and  routine  dental  care, including
 orthodontia but excluding cosmetic surgery;  emergency,  preventive  and
 routine  vision care, including eyeglasses; speech and hearing services;
 inpatient and outpatient mental  health,  alcohol  and  substance  abuse
 services,  including children and family treatment and support services,
 children's home and community based services, assertive community treat-
 ment services and residential rehabilitation for  youth  services  which
 shall  be  reimbursed  in  accordance  with the ambulatory patient group
 (APG) rate-setting methodology as utilized by the department of  health,
 the  office  of addiction services and supports, or the office of mental
 health for rate-setting purposes or  any  such  other  fees  established
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 pursuant  to  article forty-three of the mental hygiene law; and health-
 related services provided by voluntary foster care agency health facili-
 ties licensed pursuant to article  twenty-nine-I  of  this  chapter;  as
 defined  by  the  commissioner. "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.