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                                    959
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sens. COONEY, GALLIVAN, HELMING -- 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  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.