Bill Text: NY A01619 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 1619

Bill Title: Prohibits insurers from restricting or imposing delays in the distribution of antiretroviral prescription drugs prescribed to a person for the treatment or prevention of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - substituted by s1001a [A01619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01619-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1619--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, BRONSON -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Insurance -- recommitted to the Committee
          on Insurance in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting insurers
          from restricting or imposing delays in the distribution of  antiretro-
          viral prescription drugs to certain persons

          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 39 to read as follows:
     3    (39)  No policy that provides coverage for antiretroviral prescription
     4  drugs prescribed for the treatment or prevention of the human  immunode-
     5  ficiency  virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) shall
     6  subject such drugs to prior authorization.
     7    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
     8  adding a new paragraph 22 to read as follows:
     9    (22) Every group or blanket policy delivered or issued for delivery in
    10  this state that provides coverage for antiretroviral prescription  drugs
    11  for  the  treatment  or  prevention  of the human immunodeficiency virus
    12  (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome  (AIDS)  shall  not  subject
    13  such drug to a prior authorization requirement.
    14    §  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    15  subsection (vv) to read as follows:
    16    (vv) Any contract issued by a medical expense indemnity corporation, a
    17  hospital service corporation  or  a  health  services  corporation  that
    18  provides  coverage  for antiretroviral prescription drugs for the treat-
    19  ment or prevention of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired
    20  immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) shall not subject such drug to a  prior
    21  authorization requirement.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04099-02-4