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Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Allows for speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid beyond twenty visits where the provider of the therapy or services attests to the medical necessity of the additional visits.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4846
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing
extended speech, physical or occupational therapy under Medicaid
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 5 of part A of chapter 57 of
3 the laws of 2018, 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 and occupational therapy each shall be limited to coverage of twenty
8 visits per year unless the professional at whose direction the therapy
9 or services are provided or the provider of the therapy or services
10 attests to the medical necessity of additional visits; physical therapy
11 shall be limited to coverage of forty visits per year unless the profes-
12 sional at whose direction the therapy or services are provided or the
13 provider of the therapy or services attests to the medical necessity of
14 additional visits; such limitation shall not apply to persons with
15 developmental disabilities or, notwithstanding any other provision of
16 law to the contrary, to persons with traumatic brain injury;
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
18 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the
19 addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations neces-
20 sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
21 authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective
22 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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