Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7667--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
September 25, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to
the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including dental
implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root
canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage
under the Medicaid program
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 (f-1) to read as follows:
3 (f-1) including but not limited to dental implants, implant-related
4 services, dental prosthetic appliances, replacement dental prosthetic
5 appliances, crowns and root canals for posterior and anterior teeth,
6 crown lengthening when associated with a covered crown and/or root canal
7 if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures;
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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