Relates to including dental implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program

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Relates to including dental implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program

Relates to including dental implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.

What This Bill Does

• Relates to including dental implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.

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Official Summary Text

Relates to including dental implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program
Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1931

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SAYEGH, WOERNER -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including dental
          implants,  replacement  dental  prosthetic appliances, crowns and root
          canals as medically necessary dental care and  services  for  coverage
          under the Medicaid program

          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 (f-1) to read as follows:
     3    (F-1)  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO DENTAL IMPLANTS, IMPLANT-RELATED
     4  SERVICES, DENTAL PROSTHETIC APPLIANCES,  REPLACEMENT  DENTAL  PROSTHETIC
     5  APPLIANCES,  CROWNS  AND  ROOT  CANALS FOR POSTERIOR AND ANTERIOR TEETH,
     6  CROWN LENGTHENING WHEN ASSOCIATED WITH A COVERED CROWN AND/OR ROOT CANAL
     7  IF A QUALIFIED DENTIST AUTHORIZES THE PROCEDURES;
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05284-01-5