Bill Text: NY A01931 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to health [A01931 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01931-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1931

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SAYEGH, WOERNER -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including dental
          implants,  replacement  dental  prosthetic appliances, crowns and root
          canals as medically necessary dental care and  services  for  coverage
          under the Medicaid program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f-1) to read as follows:
     3    (f-1)  including  but  not limited to dental implants, implant-related
     4  services, dental prosthetic appliances,  replacement  dental  prosthetic
     5  appliances,  crowns  and  root  canals for posterior and anterior teeth,
     6  crown lengthening when associated with a covered crown and/or root canal
     7  if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures;
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05284-01-5
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