STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7667--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD13300-02-3