Assembly Bill A7244

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A7244 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4790
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9863
2019-2020: A2794, S3458
2021-2022: A195, S1571

2023-A7244 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.

2023-A7244 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7244
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE, DARLING, PAULIN -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical assist-
   ance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther-
   apy for the purpose of disease management

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (kk) to read as follows:
   (KK) MEDICALLY TAILORED MEALS AND MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY.  AS  USED
 IN THIS PARAGRAPH, "MEDICALLY TAILORED MEALS AND MEDICAL NUTRITION THER-
 APY"  MEANS NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT, NUTRITIONAL THERAPY, AND NUTRITIONAL
 COUNSELING PROVIDED BY A CERTIFIED DIETICIAN OR CERTIFIED  NUTRITIONIST,
 INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ANY FOOD INDICATED BY THE NUTRITIONAL ASSESS-
 MENT  AND  THE  DELIVERY  OF SUCH FOOD, ORDERED BY A HEALTH CARE PROFES-
 SIONAL ACTING WITHIN HIS OR HER LAWFUL SCOPE  OF  PRACTICE  UNDER  TITLE
 EIGHT  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  FOR THE PURPOSE OF TREATING ONE OR MORE
 CHRONIC CONDITIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS LIMITED IN HIS OR HER ACTIV-
 ITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AND PROVIDED  THAT  THERE  IS  FEDERAL  FINANCIAL
 PARTICIPATION IN THE COSTS OF SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
 health shall adopt regulations and take other actions reasonably  neces-
 sary to implement this act on that date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08048-01-3

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