Bill Text: NY A01523 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits approved organizations providing coverage under the child health insurance plan from discriminating against health care providers which do not participate in the organization's health care network.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2021-11-03 - tabled [A01523 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A01523-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1523 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting approved organizations in the child health insurance plan from limit- ing the participation of certain health care providers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2511 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows: 3 (d) No approved organization shall prohibit or in any way limit the 4 provision of covered health care services by a health care provider on 5 the grounds that such provider chooses not to participate in a health 6 care network maintained by such approved organization to serve commer- 7 cial insureds, enrollees or subscribers. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00216-01-1
