Bill Text: NY A09392 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires comprehensive motor vehicle reparations and workers' compensation coverage of health care services delivered by means of telehealth.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-29 - referred to insurance [A09392 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09392-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9392
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 29, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Insurance
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the workers' compensation law,  in
          relation to coverage of health care services by means of telehealth
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subsection (a) of section 5102 of the insur-
     2  ance law, as amended by chapter 298 of the laws of 2006, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (1)  All  necessary  expenses  incurred  for:  (i)  medical,  hospital
     5  (including services rendered in compliance with article forty-one of the
     6  public health law, whether or not such services are rendered directly by
     7  a hospital), surgical, nursing, dental, ambulance,  x-ray,  prescription
     8  drug   and  prosthetic  services;  (ii)  psychiatric,  physical  therapy
     9  (provided that treatment is rendered pursuant to a referral) and occupa-
    10  tional therapy and rehabilitation; (iii) any health care services deliv-
    11  ered by means of telehealth, as defined in  subsection  (b)  of  section
    12  three  thousand  two  hundred seventeen-h of this chapter; (iv) any non-
    13  medical remedial care and treatment rendered in accordance with a  reli-
    14  gious method of healing recognized by the laws of this state; and [(iv)]
    15  (v) any other professional health services; all without limitation as to
    16  time, provided that within one year after the date of the accident caus-
    17  ing the injury it is ascertainable that further expenses may be incurred
    18  as a result of the injury. For the purpose of determining basic economic
    19  loss,  the expenses incurred under this paragraph shall be in accordance
    20  with the limitations of section five thousand one hundred eight of  this
    21  article.
    22    §  2.  The  opening  paragraph of subdivision (a) of section 13 of the
    23  workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter  536  of  the  laws  of
    24  2015, is amended to read as follows:
    25    The  employer  shall  promptly  provide  for  an injured employee such
    26  medical, dental, surgical, optometric or other attendance or  treatment,
    27  nurse  and  hospital  service,  medicine, optometric services, crutches,
    28  eye-glasses,  false  teeth,  artificial  eyes,   orthotics,   prosthetic
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13523-02-6