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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           972
                               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
        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 on any  insured  for
     5  such  treatment.  For  the  purposes  of  this section "opioid treatment
     6  program" means a program or practitioner engaged in opioid treatment  of
     7  individuals with an opioid agonist treatment medication.
     8    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
     9  adding a new paragraph 7-c to read as follows:
    10    (7-c)  Every  policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
    11  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee on any  insured  for
    12  such  treatment.    For  the  purposes of this section "opioid treatment
    13  program" means a program or practitioner engaged in opioid treatment  of
    14  individuals with an opioid agonist treatment medication.
    15    §  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    16  subsection (l-3) to read as follows:
    17    (l-3) Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at  an  opioid
    18  treatment  program  shall not impose a co-payment fee on any insured for
    19  such treatment.   For the purposes of  this  section  "opioid  treatment
    20  program"  means a program or practitioner engaged in opioid treatment of
    21  individuals with an opioid agonist treatment medication.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    23  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
    24  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended  on
    25  and after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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