Bill Text: NY A02156 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to medical assistance for patients in the process of oral or injectable ovulation enhancing drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - referred to health [A02156 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02156-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2156

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical  assist-
          ance  for  patients  in  the  process  of oral or injectable ovulation
          enhancing drugs

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (ee)  of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the
     2  social services law, as added by section 4 of part S of  chapter  57  of
     3  the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ee)  Medical  assistance  shall  include  the  coverage  of  a set of
     5  services to ensure improved outcomes of [women] patients who are in  the
     6  process  of oral or injectable ovulation enhancing drugs, limited to the
     7  provision  of  such  treatment,   office   visits,   hysterosalpingogram
     8  services,  pelvic  ultrasounds,  and  blood  testing;  services shall be
     9  limited to those necessary to monitor such treatment. In the event  that
    10  ninety  percent federal financial participation for such services is not
    11  available, the state share of appropriations related to  these  services
    12  shall  be used for a grant program intended to accomplish the purpose of
    13  this section.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05352-01-5
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