A 6935: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6935 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 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 (nn) to read as follows: 3 (nn) 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 April 1, 2025. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10904-01-5