Senate Bill S6664

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Adds services delivered to individuals with developmental disabilities to the requirement that telehealth services be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or fees regardless of location

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health 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-S6664 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6509
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L

2023-S6664 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds services delivered, to individuals with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injury, through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law, to the requirement that telehealth services be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or fees regardless of the location of the patient or the clinician.

2023-S6664 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6664 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6664
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursement  for
   telehealth services
 
   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 section 2 of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  Health  care  services  delivered  by means of telehealth shall be
 entitled to reimbursement under section three hundred  sixty-seven-u  of
 the  social services law on the same basis, at the same rate, and to the
 same extent the equivalent services, as may be  defined  in  regulations
 promulgated  by  the  commissioner,  are  reimbursed  when  delivered in
 person; provided, however, that health care services delivered by  means
 of  telehealth  shall not require reimbursement to a telehealth provider
 for certain costs, including but not limited to facility fees  or  costs
 reimbursed  through ambulatory patient groups or other clinic reimburse-
 ment methodologies set forth in section twenty-eight  hundred  seven  of
 this  chapter, if such costs were not incurred in the provision of tele-
 health services due to neither the originating site nor the distant site
 occurring within  a  facility  or  other  clinic  setting;  and  further
 provided,  however,  reimbursement  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 tele-
 phone  communication  defined  in  regulations  promulgated  pursuant to
 subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc  of  this
 article,  shall  be  contingent  upon  federal  financial participation.
 Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this  subdivision,  for   services
 licensed, certified or otherwise authorized pursuant to article sixteen,
 article  thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law, AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10741-01-3
              

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