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S04790 Summary:

BILL NOS04790
 
SAME ASSAME AS A07244
 
SPONSORRIVERA
 
COSPNSRBROUK, RAMOS
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
 
Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.
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S04790 Actions:

BILL NOS04790
 
02/14/2023REFERRED TO HEALTH
03/15/20231ST REPORT CAL.525
03/16/20232ND REPORT CAL.
03/20/2023ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
03/31/2023PASSED SENATE
03/31/2023DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
03/31/2023referred to health
01/03/2024died in assembly
01/03/2024returned to senate
01/03/2024REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/22/2024REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
03/19/20241ST REPORT CAL.694
03/20/20242ND REPORT CAL.
03/21/2024ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
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S04790 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4790
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 14, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, BROUK -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed 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:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (kk) to read as follows:
     3    (kk) medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy.  As  used
     4  in this paragraph, "medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther-
     5  apy"  means nutritional assessment, nutritional therapy, and nutritional
     6  counseling provided by a certified dietician or certified  nutritionist,
     7  including the provision of any food indicated by the nutritional assess-
     8  ment  and  the  delivery  of such food, ordered by a health care profes-
     9  sional acting within his or her lawful scope  of  practice  under  title
    10  eight  of  the  education  law,  for the purpose of treating one or more
    11  chronic conditions for an individual who is limited in his or her activ-
    12  ities of daily living; and provided  that  there  is  federal  financial
    13  participation in the costs of services provided under this paragraph.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
    16  health shall adopt regulations and take other actions reasonably  neces-
    17  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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