Requires Medicaid to cover a wearable medical device that uses low-intensity, alternating electric fields delivered to the tumor site to treat glioblastoma and other cancers as recommended by medical and scientific evidence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6736--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring Medi-
caid to cover a wearable medical device to treat certain forms of
cancer
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 (oo) to read as follows:
3 (oo) a wearable medical device that uses low-intensity, alternating
4 electric fields delivered directly to the tumor site to treat glioblas-
5 toma and other cancers as recommended by medical and scientific
6 evidence, including, but not limited to:
7 (i) labeled indications for a medical device approved or cleared by
8 the federal food and drug administration;
9 (ii) centers for medicare and Medicaid services national coverage
10 determinations and medicare administrative contractor local coverage
11 determinations; and
12 (iii) nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines such as, but
13 not limited to, those of the national comprehensive cancer network or
14 the American society of clinical oncology.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
16 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10904-02-5
