OUR BILLS
Insurance companies often fail to cover PANS treatment. We are working to change state insurance law to make sure they do.
Health plans would have to cover rehabilitative treatment for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome whenever a child’s attending physician certifies in writing that the treatment is medically necessary.
New York prints newly added statutory language in capital letters. The capitals are the legislature’s formatting, not emphasis.
The Bills
Register your support. Open either bill above, find the question “Do you support this bill?” in the right-hand column, click Aye, and follow the directions. It takes about thirty seconds and your support is recorded publicly on the bill’s own page.
Both bills would require health plans to cover rehabilitative treatment for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome when an attending physician certifies in writing that it is medically necessary. Bill status current as of September 2026.
History of the Bills
In 2017 a group of dedicated parents decided to make New York one of the first states to mandate PANS/PANDAS coverage. The COVID-19 pandemic derailed their initiative, but not before they had made significant strides. Because of them, the state includes PANS/PANDAS in its health law and features it on the Health Department website.
Versions of these bills have been introduced every year since 2017 without advancing. What has changed is the evidence behind them. PANS is now named in New York’s public health law, described on the Department of Health’s own website, and backed by the mental health, physician, and social work organizations that have written in support of S10208 and A9659.