STATE OF NEW YORK
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1038
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to coverage of ostomy
supplies in the child health plus program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2510 of the public health law, as
2 amended by chapter 428 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. "Covered health care services" means: the services of physicians,
5 optometrists, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives and other related
6 professional personnel which are provided on an outpatient basis,
7 including routine well-child visits; diagnosis and treatment of illness
8 and injury; inpatient health care services; laboratory tests; diagnostic
9 x-rays; prescription and non-prescription drugs, ostomy supplies and
10 durable medical equipment; radiation therapy; chemotherapy; hemodialy-
11 sis; outpatient blood clotting factor products and other treatments and
12 services furnished in connection with the care of hemophilia and other
13 blood clotting protein deficiencies; emergency room services; hospice
14 services; emergency, preventive and routine dental care, including
15 medically necessary orthodontia but excluding cosmetic surgery; emergen-
16 cy, preventive and routine vision care, including eyeglasses; speech and
17 hearing services; and, inpatient and outpatient mental health, alcohol
18 and substance abuse services as defined by the commissioner in consulta-
19 tion with the superintendent. "Covered health care services" shall not
20 include drugs, procedures and supplies for the treatment of erectile
21 dysfunction when provided to, or prescribed for use by, a person who is
22 required to register as a sex offender pursuant to article six-C of the
23 correction law, provided that any denial of coverage of such drugs,
24 procedures or supplies shall provide the patient with the means of
25 obtaining additional information concerning both the denial and the
26 means of challenging such denial.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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