Bill Text: NY A01191 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring notification to insured persons that an out-of-network physician or specialist may be used in their procedure, test or surgery.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-09-27 - enacting clause stricken [A01191 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01191-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1191 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring notifica- tions to insured persons that an out-of-network physician or special- ist may be used in their procedure, test or surgery 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 3242 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3242. Notice of out-of-network physician or specialist. Every 4 person insured under a policy of accident and health insurance delivered 5 or issued for delivery shall be entitled to notification prior to their 6 procedure, test or surgery from the physician or specialist who may be 7 used in such procedure, test or surgery that such physician's or 8 specialist's services shall not be covered by their insurance policy. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03487-01-7
