S 1813: Relates to medical assistance for patients in the process of oral or injectable ovulation enhancing drugs.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1813 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical assist- ance for patients in the process of oral or injectable ovulation enhancing drugs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (ee) of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the 2 social services law, as added by section 4 of part S of chapter 57 of 3 the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 (ee) Medical assistance shall include the coverage of a set of 5 services to ensure improved outcomes of [women] patients who are in the 6 process of oral or injectable ovulation enhancing drugs, limited to the 7 provision of such treatment, office visits, hysterosalpingogram 8 services, pelvic ultrasounds, and blood testing; services shall be 9 limited to those necessary to monitor such treatment. In the event that 10 ninety percent federal financial participation for such services is not 11 available, the state share of appropriations related to these services 12 shall be used for a grant program intended to accomplish the purpose of 13 this section. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05352-01-5