Directs the department of health to request guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine whether the state can claim federal financial participation for coverage of and payment for certain evidence-based mobile medical applications.
Sen. Pete Harckham
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Relates to the definition of tuition for children with handicapping conditions.
Establishes a pilot program for the dispensing of hearing aids in the county of Westchester.
Directs the department of health, in cooperation with various state offices and agencies to review, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the prescribing and treatment history of persons in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses.
Increases age for use of ATVs by minors from age ten to fourteen.
Relates to accessing records under the freedom of information law including notification procedures and the release of names of natural persons and residential addresses.
Requires introducer's memorandum to include a statement of fiscal impact affecting political subdivisions.
Establishes a code of ethics for all board of election employees so that no employee of a board of election has any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, or engage in any business or transaction or professional activity or incur any obligation of any nature, which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his or her duties in the public interest.
Requires health practitioners to discuss with patients the risks associated with certain pain medications before prescribing such medications; requires that for the first opioid analgesic prescription of a calendar year the prescribing physician shall counsel the patient on the risks of overdose.
Includes clinically necessary treatment for certain inpatient coverage, which shall mean an individual's medical needs and any social determinants of health that will promote such individual's stability following discharge from treatment.