Bill Text: NY A00917 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 917 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides that every health insurance policy which provides coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care shall provide coverage for the standard diagnostic testing for ovarian cancer upon the recommendation of a physician; provides that such standard diagnostic testing shall include a pelvic examination, a sonogram and a CA 125 blood test and related laboratory and diagnostic services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - print number 917a [A00917 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00917-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         917--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          CAHILL,  CLARK,  COOK,  CUSICK, DINOWITZ, GALEF, GLICK, HOOPER, MAGEE,
          ORTIZ, PERRY, WRIGHT -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Insurance  --  recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance  law, in relation to health insurance
          coverage for diagnostic testing for ovarian cancer
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.    Subsection  (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph 11-b to read as follows:
     3    (11-b) (A) Every policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state
     4  which provides medical coverage that  includes  coverage  for  physician
     5  services  in  a physician's office and every policy which provides major
     6  medical or similar comprehensive-type coverage shall provide,  upon  the
     7  prescription  of  a health care provider legally authorized to prescribe
     8  under title eight of the education law, coverage for diagnostic  testing
     9  for ovarian cancer, including a pelvic examination, a sonogram, a CA 125
    10  blood test and laboratory and diagnostic services provided in connection
    11  with  examining  and evaluating such blood test for women aged forty and
    12  over with one or more female relatives with a prior history  of  ovarian
    13  cancer.
    14    (B) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance
    15  as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent
    16  with those established for other benefits within a given policy.
    17    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    18  adding a new paragraph 11-b to read as follows:
    19    (11-b) (A) Every insurer which delivers or issues for delivery in this
    20  state  a  policy  which provides medical coverage that includes coverage
    21  for physician services in a physician's office or major medical or simi-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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