STATE OF NEW YORK
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2989--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 26, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursing health
care providers at the same rate for telephonic and telehealth visits
as in-person visits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law,
2 as amended by chapter 124 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Health care services delivered by means of telehealth, including
5 audio-only telephone communications as defined in regulations promulgat-
6 ed pursuant to subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-
7 nine-cc of this article, shall be entitled to reimbursement on the same
8 basis and to the same extent as if such services were provided in person
9 under section three hundred sixty-seven-u of the social services law;
10 provided however, reimbursement for additional modalities, provider
11 categories and originating sites specified in accordance with section
12 twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-ee of this article, [and audio-only
13 telephone communication defined in regulations promulgated pursuant to
14 subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this
15 article,] shall be contingent upon federal financial participation.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00290-02-1
