Bill Text: NY A03017 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide insurance coverage for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing; requires coverage under family health plus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to insurance [A03017 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A03017-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3017
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 23, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, GUNTHER, GOTTFRIED, CASTRO, SCARBOR-
OUGH, ZEBROWSKI, COLTON, DINOWITZ, DenDEKKER, BROOK-KRASNY, TITONE,
MAGNARELLI, CAMARA, BOYLAND -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARRON,
BRENNAN, CAHILL, GABRYSZAK, GLICK, LUPARDO, MARKEY, McDONOUGH,
RUSSELL, SWEENEY, THIELE, WEISENBERG, WRIGHT -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the social services law, in
relation to requiring health care service plans and health insurers to
provide insurance coverage for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
testing
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 30 to read as follows:
3 (30) EVERY POLICY WHICH PROVIDES HOSPITAL, SURGICAL OR MEDICAL CARE
4 COVERAGE OR PROVIDES REIMBURSEMENT FOR LABORATORY TESTS OR REIMBURSEMENT
5 FOR DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN IMMUNODE-
6 FICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) TESTING, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE TESTING IS
7 RELATED TO A PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS.
8 S 2. Subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
9 adding a new paragraph 19 to read as follows:
10 (19) A GROUP OR BLANKET ACCIDENT OR HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY OR ISSUING
11 A GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY FOR DELIVERY IN THIS STATE WHICH PROVIDES
12 COVERAGE FOR HOSPITAL, SURGICAL, OR MEDICAL CARE COVERAGE OR PROVIDES
13 REIMBURSEMENT FOR LABORATORY TESTS OR REIMBURSEMENT FOR DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY
14 SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV)
15 TESTING, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE TESTING IS RELATED TO A PRIMARY DIAG-
16 NOSIS.
17 S 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
18 subsection (jj) to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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A. 3017 2
1 (JJ) A MEDICAL EXPENSE INDEMNITY CORPORATION, A HOSPITAL SERVICE
2 CORPORATION OR A HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR
3 HOSPITAL, SURGICAL, OR MEDICAL CARE COVERAGE OR PROVIDES REIMBURSEMENT
4 FOR LABORATORY TESTS OR REIMBURSEMENT FOR DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY SERVICES
5 SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) TESTING,
6 REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE TESTING IS RELATED TO A PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS.
7 S 4. Subparagraphs (xv) and (xvi) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of
8 section 369-ee of the social services law, subparagraph (xv) as amended
9 and subparagraph (xvi) as added by chapter 526 of the laws of 2002, are
10 amended and a new subparagraph (xvii) is added to read as follows:
11 (xv) services provided to meet the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 1396d(r);
12 [and]
13 (xvi) hospice services[.]; AND
14 (XVII) HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) TESTING.
15 S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
