New York S 4720: Relates to industrial development agencies

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S04720 Summary:

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Adds services delivered, to individuals with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injury, through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law, to the requirement that telehealth services be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or fees regardless of the location of the patient or the clinician.

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02/12/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4720

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 12, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursement for
 telehealth services

 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 2999-dd of the public health law,
 2 as amended by section 2 of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 1. Health care services delivered by means of telehealth shall be
 5 entitled to reimbursement under section three hundred sixty-seven-u of
 6 the social services law on the same basis, at the same rate, and to the
 7 same extent the equivalent services, as may be defined in regulations
 8 promulgated by the commissioner, are reimbursed when delivered in
 9 person; provided, however, that health care services delivered by means
 10 of telehealth shall not require reimbursement to a telehealth provider
 11 for certain costs, including but not limited to facility fees or costs
 12 reimbursed through ambulatory patient groups or other clinic reimburse-
 13 ment methodologies set forth in section twenty-eight hundred seven of
 14 this chapter, if such costs were not incurred in the provision of tele-
 15 health services due to neither the originating site nor the distant site
 16 occurring within a facility or other clinic setting; and further
 17 provided, however, reimbursement for additional modalities, provider
 18 categories and originating sites specified in accordance with section
 19 twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-ee of this article, and audio-only tele-
 20 phone communication defined in regulations promulgated pursuant to
 21 subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this
 22 article, shall be contingent upon federal financial participation.
 23 Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, for services
 24 licensed, certified or otherwise authorized pursuant to article sixteen,
 25 article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law, and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05707-01-5

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 1 for any services delivered through a facility licensed under article
 2 twenty-eight of this chapter to eligible persons diagnosed with a devel-
 3 opmental disability or a traumatic brain injury, such services provided
 4 by telehealth[, as deemed appropriate by the relevant commissioner,]
 5 shall be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or fees estab-
 6 lished by law, or otherwise established or certified by the office for
 7 people with developmental disabilities, office of mental health, or the
 8 office of addiction services and supports pursuant to article forty-
 9 three of the mental hygiene law.
 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 11 have been in effect on and after April 1, 2025; provided, however, that
 12 the amendments to subdivision 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health
 13 law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration
 14 and reversion of such subdivision and shall expire and be deemed
 15 repealed therewith.

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