STATE OF NEW YORK
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7161
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 3, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. COONEY, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to coverage of air
ambulance transport in the child health plus program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2510 of the public health law, as
2 amended by chapter 428 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. "Covered health care services" means: the services of physicians,
5 optometrists, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives and other related
6 professional personnel which are provided on an outpatient basis,
7 including routine well-child visits; diagnosis and treatment of illness
8 and injury; inpatient health care services; laboratory tests; diagnostic
9 x-rays; prescription and non-prescription drugs and durable medical
10 equipment; radiation therapy; chemotherapy; hemodialysis; outpatient
11 blood clotting factor products and other treatments and services
12 furnished in connection with the care of hemophilia and other blood
13 clotting protein deficiencies; emergency room services; air ambulance
14 services; hospice services; emergency, preventive and routine dental
15 care, including medically necessary orthodontia but excluding cosmetic
16 surgery; emergency, preventive and routine vision care, including
17 eyeglasses; speech and hearing services; and, inpatient and outpatient
18 mental health, alcohol and substance abuse services as defined by the
19 commissioner in consultation with the superintendent. "Covered health
20 care services" shall not include drugs, procedures and supplies for the
21 treatment of erectile dysfunction when provided to, or prescribed for
22 use by, a person who is required to register as a sex offender pursuant
23 to article six-C of the correction law, provided that any denial of
24 coverage of such drugs, procedures or supplies shall provide the patient
25 with the means of obtaining additional information concerning both the
26 denial and the means of challenging such denial.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11708-01-1
