Bill Text: NY A00368 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires insurance companies to issue joint checks for payment to an insured and a health care provider in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to insurance [A00368 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A00368-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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368
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring insur-
ance companies to issue joint checks for payment to an insured and a
health care provider in certain circumstances
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 4406-g to read as follows:
3 S 4406-G. PAYMENT FOR OUT-OF-NETWORK HEALTH CARE SERVICES; JOINT
4 CHECKS. AN INSURANCE COMPANY SUBJECT TO ARTICLE THIRTY-TWO OF THIS CHAP-
5 TER, SHALL ISSUE AND PROVIDE AN INSURED WITH A JOINT CHECK MADE OUT TO
6 BOTH THE INSURED AND TO A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER FOR THE PURPOSES OF
7 PAYMENT TO SUCH HEALTH CARE PROVIDER FOR ANY OUT-OF-NETWORK SERVICES
8 RENDERED TO THE INSURED. SUCH CHECK SHALL LIST THE FULL NAME OF THE
9 INSURED WITH THE WORD "AND" AFTER SUCH NAME FOLLOWED BY THE NAME OF THE
10 HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OR GROUP PRACTICE.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05314-01-5
