New York S 354: Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth

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S00354 Summary:

BILL NOS00354 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06334

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRBROUK, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L

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Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.

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BILL NOS00354 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1080

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/28/2025PASSED SENATE

05/28/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/28/2025referred to health

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

02/24/20261ST REPORT CAL.382

02/25/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/26/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/16/2026PASSED SENATE

04/16/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/16/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 354

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, WEBB -- 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 expanding health-
 care services provided by telehealth

 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,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00659-01-5

 S. 354 2

 1 article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law, such
 2 services provided by telehealth[, as deemed appropriate by the relevant
 3 commissioner,] shall be reimbursed at the applicable in person rates or
 4 fees established by law, or otherwise established or certified by the
 5 office for people with developmental disabilities, office of mental
 6 health, or the office of addiction services and supports pursuant to
 7 article forty-three of the mental hygiene law, unless a specific service
 8 is deemed inappropriate by the relevant commissioner.
 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 10 have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
 11 1 of section 2999-dd of the public health law made by section one of
 12 this act shall not affect the expiration of such subdivision and shall
 13 be deemed to expire therewith.

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