Bill Text: NY A00025 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for medical assistance payments in the form of certain durable medical equipment for medicare beneficiaries also receiving payments under title XVIII of the federal social security act to not be less than and be based on the approval procedures and payment levels so authorized for eligible individuals who are not eligible pursuant to such title XVIII, less any payments received under such title.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A00025 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00025-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           25
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,
          COOK, CYMBROWITZ,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  GOTTFRIED,  GUNTHER,  PAULIN,  PERRY,
          RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to level of medical
          assistance for durable medical equipment for medicare beneficiaries
          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 367-a of the social  services  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
     3    (h)  Amounts  payable  under  this title for medical assistance in the
     4  form of durable medical equipment (which shall be  limited  to:  wheeled
     5  mobility  equipment  including,  but not limited to, manual wheelchairs,
     6  powered mobility and wheelchair accessories including, but  not  limited
     7  to,  seating and positioning adaptations; and augmentative communication
     8  or speech generating devices and accessories) pursuant to paragraph  (g)
     9  of  subdivision two of section three hundred sixty-five-a of this title,
    10  provided to eligible persons who  are  also  beneficiaries  under  title
    11  XVIII  of  the  federal  social  security act shall not be less than and
    12  shall be based on the approval procedures and payment levels so  author-
    13  ized  for  eligible  individuals  who  are not eligible pursuant to such
    14  title XVIII, less any payments received under such title XVIII.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01638-01-7