Bill Text: NY A06634 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurers covering surgery to cover all expenses incurred in connection with autologous blood transfusions (self-donated); applies to individual and group policies and to medical expense indemnity and hospital or health service corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-26 - held for consideration in insurance [A06634 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06634-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6634
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 23, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Insurance
       AN  ACT  to  amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring insurance
         policies covering surgery to cover all expenses incurred in connection
         with autologous blood transfusions
         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 28 to read as follows:
    3    (28) EVERY POLICY  WHICH  PROVIDES  SURGICAL  COVERAGE  SHALL  PROVIDE
    4  COVERAGE  FOR  ALL EXPENSES INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH AUTOLOGOUS BLOOD
    5  TRANSFUSIONS USED FOR OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR SURGERY, INCLUDING  THE
    6  COLLECTION  OF  BLOOD PRIOR TO SURGERY AND THE TRANSFUSION OF SUCH BLOOD
    7  INTO THE INSURED, WHETHER DONE BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER SURGERY.
    8    S 2. Subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    9  adding a new paragraph 18 to read as follows:
   10    (18) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN
   11  THIS STATE WHICH PROVIDES SURGICAL COVERAGE SHALL PROVIDE  COVERAGE  FOR
   12  ALL  EXPENSES  INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH AUTOLOGOUS BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
   13  USED FOR OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR SURGERY, INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF
   14  BLOOD PRIOR TO SURGERY AND  THE  TRANSFUSION  OF  SUCH  BLOOD  INTO  THE
   15  INSURED, WHETHER DONE BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER SURGERY.
   16    S  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
   17  subsection (hh) to read as follows:
   18    (HH) A MEDICAL  EXPENSE  INDEMNITY  CORPORATION,  A  HOSPITAL  SERVICE
   19  CORPORATION,  OR  A  HEALTH  SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES SURGICAL
   20  COVERAGE SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ALL EXPENSES INCURRED IN  CONNECTION
   21  WITH  AUTOLOGOUS  BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS USED FOR OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR
   22  SURGERY, INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF BLOOD  PRIOR  TO  SURGERY  AND  THE
   23  TRANSFUSION OF SUCH BLOOD INTO THE INSURED, WHETHER DONE BEFORE, DURING,
   24  OR AFTER SURGERY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 6634                             2
    1    S  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    2  ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to  all
    3  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on
    4  or after such date.