S6025 • 2025

Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services

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Sponsor: Samra Brouk
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services

Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services.

What This Bill Does

Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services.

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Bill History

2026-05-28 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-28 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-28 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2026-05-21 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-20 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-19 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1207
2026-05-05 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2025-06-11 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-11 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-11 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2025-06-04 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-29 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-28 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1358
2025-04-29 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-03-04 Senate
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services
Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services.

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

                                          6025

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      March 4, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BROUK, BRISPORT, FERNANDEZ, PARKER, SALAZAR, 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  authorizing
          licensed  creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their
          services

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (gg)  of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the
     2  social services law, as amended by chapter 97 of the laws  of  2022,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (gg)  care  and  services  provided by mental health counselors [and],
     5  marriage and family therapists, AND CREATIVE  ARTS  THERAPISTS  licensed
     6  pursuant  to article one hundred sixty-three of the education law acting
     7  within their scope of practice, where such services would  otherwise  be
     8  covered  under  this title. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
     9  to modify or expand the scope of practice of a mental  health  counselor
    10  [or], marriage and family therapist, OR CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIST licensed
    11  pursuant to article one hundred sixty-three of the education law.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08830-01-5