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NY S09584

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/26/2022

Primary Sponsor

Gustavo Rivera

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Origin

Senate

2021-2022 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Expands telehealth reimbursement to cover additional modalities, provider categories, and originating sites as specified in regulations, contingent upon federal financial participation.

  • Removes the April 1, 2024 sunset date for telehealth reimbursement provisions, making the telehealth expansion permanent rather than temporary.

  • Clarifies that mental hygiene law services (articles 16, 31, and 32) delivered via telehealth shall be reimbursed at in-person rates unless a specific service is deemed inappropriate by the relevant commissioner.

  • Eliminates language requiring telehealth services to be "deemed appropriate by the relevant commissioner" and replaces it with language allowing commissioners to deem services inappropriate on a case-by-case basis.

  • Applies retroactively to April 1, 2022 but takes effect 60 days after enactment for the substantive reimbursement changes.

Legislative Description

Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth; removes the sunset date of such expansion.

Last Action

REFERRED TO RULES

10/26/2022

Committee Referrals

Rules10/26/2022

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