Bill Text: NY A00972 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting insurance companies from imposing co-payments for treatment at an opioid treatment program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - ordered to third reading cal.46 [A00972 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00972-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         972--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting co-pay-
          ments for treatment at an opioid treatment program

          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 31-b to read as follows:
     3    (31-b) Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at an  opioid
     4  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
     5  treatment  on  any  insured for such treatment. For the purposes of this
     6  section "opioid treatment  program"  means  a  program  or  practitioner
     7  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with an opioid agonist treat-
     8  ment medication.
     9    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    10  adding a new paragraph 7-c to read as follows:
    11    (7-c)  Every  policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
    12  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
    13  treatment on any insured for such treatment.  For the purposes  of  this
    14  section  "opioid  treatment  program"  means  a  program or practitioner
    15  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with an opioid agonist treat-
    16  ment medication.
    17    § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    18  subsection (l-3) to read as follows:
    19    (l-3)  Every  policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
    20  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
    21  treatment on any insured for such treatment.  For the purposes  of  this
    22  section  "opioid  treatment  program"  means  a  program or practitioner
    23  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with an opioid agonist treat-
    24  ment medication.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04805-02-9
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     1    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
     2  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
     3  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended  on
     4  and after such date.