Expands the individual psychotherapy services provided by licensed social workers, in accordance with licensing criteria set forth in applicable regulations to which the applicable reimbursement rate is based entirely upon the ambulatory patient group methodology.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3470
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursement
rates for certain services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (C) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (f) of subdi-
2 vision 2-a of section 2807 of the public health law, as amended by
3 section 43 of part B of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 (C) individual psychotherapy services provided by licensed social
6 workers, in accordance with licensing criteria set forth in applicable
7 regulations[, to persons under the age of twenty-one and to persons
8 requiring such services as a result of or related to pregnancy or giving
9 birth]; and
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05281-01-3
