Bill Text: NY A01053 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to access to recorded personal medical information by individuals; allows individuals access to their recorded personal medical records and limits any insurance institution, agent or insurance-support organization from charging more than one dollar per page to cover the costs incurred in providing a copy of such information to the individual.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to insurance [A01053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01053-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1053
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL, JACOBS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         BRENNAN, COOK, MILLMAN, PAULIN, WEISENBERG -- read once  and  referred
         to the Committee on Insurance
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the insurance law, in relation to access to recorded
         personal medical information
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 323 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S 323. ACCESS TO PERSONAL MEDICAL INFORMATION. IF AN INDIVIDUAL, AFTER
    4  PROPER  IDENTIFICATION, SUBMITS A WRITTEN REQUEST TO AN INSURANCE INSTI-
    5  TUTION, AGENT, OR INSURANCE-SUPPORT ORGANIZATION FOR ACCESS TO  RECORDED
    6  PERSONAL  MEDICAL  INFORMATION ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL WHICH INFORMATION IS
    7  REASONABLY DESCRIBED BY THE INDIVIDUAL, THE INSURANCE INSTITUTION, AGENT
    8  OR INSURANCE-SUPPORT ORGANIZATION MAY CHARGE A REASONABLE  FEE,  NOT  TO
    9  EXCEED ONE DOLLAR PER PAGE, TO BE PAID BY THE PERSON MAKING SUCH REQUEST
   10  TO COVER THE COSTS INCURRED IN PROVIDING A COPY OF THE RECORDED PERSONAL
   11  MEDICAL INFORMATION TO SUCH INDIVIDUAL.
   12    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
   13  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03658-01-3