New York A 1691: Expands health care services provided by telehealth

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A01691 Summary:

BILL NOA01691 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03359

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRSimon, Blankenbush, Burdick, Rivera, Simone, Rozic, Raga, Bronson, Shimsky, Steck, Shrestha,
 Mamdani, Levenberg, Davila, Gray, Gibbs, Eachus, Gallahan, Meeks, Reyes, Kim, Lemondes, Lunsford,
 Taylor, Lee, Buttenschon, Rosenthal, Kay, Epstein, Griffin, McDonald, Romero, Septimo, Lasher,
 Dais, Lavine, Sempolinski, Jacobson, Kelles, Walker, Torres, Tapia, Burroughs, Wright, Hevesi,
 Cruz, Ramos, Stern, Zaccaro

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L; amd Part V §7, Chap 57 of 2022

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Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified health center, including those facilities that are also licensed under article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.

Go to top A01691 Actions:

BILL NOA01691 

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01/14/2025referred to health

02/04/2025reported referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

Go to topA01691 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:HEALTH Chair:Paulin 
DATE:02/04/2025AYE/NAY:23/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means PaulinAyeJensenAye

DinowitzAyeGandolfoAye

RosenthalAyeBlumencranzAye

HevesiExcusedGrayAye

SteckAbsentMaherAye

BraunsteinAyeSlaterAye

SolagesAyeChludzinskiAye

Bichotte HermelExcusedNorberAye

SayeghAye

McDonaldAye

ReyesAye

Gonzalez-RojasAye

RajkumarAye

ForrestAye

KellesAye

LucasAye

MeeksAye

LunsfordAye

Go to topA01691 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA01691 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1691

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SIMON, BLANKENBUSH, BURDICK, RIVERA,
 SIMONE, ROZIC, RAGA, BRONSON, SHIMSKY, STECK, SHRESTHA, MAMDANI,
 LEVENBERG, DAVILA, GRAY, GIBBS, EACHUS, GALLAHAN, MEEKS, REYES, KIM,
 LEMONDES, LUNSFORD, TAYLOR, LEE, BUTTENSCHON, ROSENTHAL -- read once
 and referred to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding health
 care services provided by telehealth; and to amend part V of chapter
 57 of the laws of 2022, amending the public health law and the insur-
 ance law relating to reimbursement for commercial and Medicaid
 services provided via telehealth, in relation to the effectiveness
 thereof

 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03866-01-5

 A. 1691 2

 1 twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-ee of this article, and audio-only tele-
 2 phone communication defined in regulations promulgated pursuant to
 3 subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of this