Eliminates the 20 visits per year limit on medical assistance coverage for speech, physical and occupational therapies to persons with traumatic brain injury.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5851
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 23, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the provision of
speech therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy to recipi-
ents of medical assistance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the
2 social services law, as amended by section 27 of part H of chapter 59 of
3 the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 (h) speech therapy, and when provided at the direction of a physician
5 or nurse practitioner, physical therapy including related rehabilitative
6 services and occupational therapy; provided, however, that speech thera-
7 py, physical therapy and occupational therapy each shall be limited to
8 coverage of twenty visits per year; such limitation shall not apply to
9 persons with developmental disabilities or, notwithstanding any other
10 provision of law to the contrary, to persons with traumatic brain
11 injury;
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
13 manner as section 27 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011 takes
14 effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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