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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2541
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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
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; physical therapy shall be limited to coverage of forty
9 visits per year unless the professional at whose direction the therapy
10 or services are provided or the provider of the therapy or services
11 attests to the medical necessity of additional visits; such limitation
12 shall not apply to persons with developmental disabilities or, notwith-
13 standing any other provision of law to the contrary, to persons with
14 traumatic brain injury;
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
17 ment and/or repeal of any rules and regulations necessary for the imple-
18 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made
19 and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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