STATE OF NEW YORK
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2076
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing
managed care enrollees access to the services of the foot center of
New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (F) of subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of
2 subdivision 4 of section 364-j of the social services law, as relettered
3 by chapter 37 of the laws of 2010, is relettered clause (G) and a new
4 clause (F) is added to read as follows:
5 (F) the services are podiatric services and are provided by a diagnos-
6 tic and treatment center licensed by article twenty-eight of the public
7 health law which is affiliated with an academic podiatric center which
8 has been granted an operating certificate pursuant to article twenty-
9 eight of the public health law to provide such podiatric services. Any
10 diagnostic and treatment center providing podiatric services pursuant to
11 this clause shall prior to June first of each year report to the gover-
12 nor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly on
13 the following: the total number of visits made by medical assistance
14 recipients during the immediately preceding calendar year; the number of
15 visits made by medical assistance recipients during the immediately
16 preceding calendar year by recipients who were enrolled in managed care
17 programs; the number of visits made by medical assistance recipients
18 during the immediately preceding calendar year by recipients who were
19 enrolled in managed care programs that provide podiatric benefits as a
20 covered service; and the number of visits made by the uninsured during
21 the immediately preceding calendar year; or
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided however, that
23 the amendments to section 364-j of the social services law made by
24 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
25 shall be deemed to be repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06916-01-9
