STATE OF NEW YORK
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9863
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred 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 (ff) to read as follows:
3 (ff) 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 registered dietician nutritionist for the
7 purpose of disease management, including the provision of any food indi-
8 cated by the nutritional assessment and the delivery of such food,
9 ordered by a health care professional acting within his or her lawful
10 scope of practice under title eight of the education law, where
11 medically indicated for an individual who is limited in his or her
12 activities of daily living by one or more chronic conditions; and
13 provided that there is federal financial participation in the costs of
14 services provided under this paragraph.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect one hundred eighty days after it shall
16 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
17 commissioner of health shall adopt regulations and take other actions
18 reasonably necessary to implement this act on that date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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