New York A 6935: Relates to requiring Medicaid to cover a wearable medical device to treat certain forms of cancer

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A06935 Summary:

BILL NOA06935A

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SAME ASSAME AS S06736-A

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SPONSORLunsford

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 365-a, Soc Serv L

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Requires Medicaid to cover a wearable medical device that uses low-intensity, alternating electric fields delivered to the tumor site to treat glioblastoma and other cancers as recommended by medical and scientific evidence.

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BILL NOA06935A

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03/18/2025referred to health

05/23/2025amend and recommit to health

05/23/2025print number 6935a

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6935--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
 as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring Medi-
 caid to cover a wearable medical device to treat certain forms of
 cancer

 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 (oo) to read as follows:
 3 (oo) a wearable medical device that uses low-intensity, alternating
 4 electric fields delivered directly to the tumor site to treat glioblas-
 5 toma and other cancers as recommended by medical and scientific
 6 evidence, including, but not limited to:
 7 (i) labeled indications for a medical device approved or cleared by
 8 the federal food and drug administration;
 9 (ii) centers for medicare and Medicaid services national coverage
 10 determinations and medicare administrative contractor local coverage
 11 determinations; and
 12 (iii) nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines such as, but
 13 not limited to, those of the national comprehensive cancer network or
 14 the American society of clinical oncology.
 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 16 the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10904-03-5

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