S 1912: Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1912 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, BROUK, RAMOS, WEBB -- 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 coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther- apy for the purpose of disease management 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) medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy. As used 4 in this paragraph, "medically tailored meals and medical nutrition ther- 5 apy" means nutritional assessment, nutritional therapy, and nutritional 6 counseling provided by a certified dietician or certified nutritionist, 7 including the provision of any food indicated by the nutritional assess- 8 ment and the delivery of such food, ordered by a health care profes- 9 sional acting within their lawful scope of practice under title eight of 10 the education law, for the purpose of treating one or more chronic 11 conditions for an individual who is limited in their activities of daily 12 living; and provided that there is federal financial participation in 13 the costs of services provided under this paragraph. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of 16 health shall adopt regulations and take other actions reasonably neces- 17 sary to implement this act on that date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04026-01-5