Bill Text: NY A03457 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that insurance policies which provide hospital, surgical or medical coverage shall provide coverage for hysterectomies; provides that such coverage shall include inpatient hospital coverage for a minimum period of seventy-two hours after surgery.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-29 - print number 3457a [A03457 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A03457-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 2402--A A. 3457--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY January 23, 2015 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. COOK, GUNTHER, TITONE, WEPRIN, MARKEY, JAFFEE, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SCHIMEL -- 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 coverage of hysterec- tomies 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 33 to read as follows: 3 (33) (A) Every policy which provides hospital, surgical or medical 4 coverage, or similar comprehensive type coverage, shall provide coverage 5 for all cost for hysterectomies. Such coverage shall include inpatient 6 hospital coverage for a minimum period of seventy-two hours after 7 surgery. 8 (B) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance 9 as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent 10 with those established for other benefits within a given policy. 11 (C) Coverage under this paragraph shall not restrict or eliminate 12 existing coverage provided by the policy and nothing in this paragraph 13 shall be construed to deny or restrict in any way any existing right or 14 benefit provided under law or by contract. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03053-03-6
