Bill Text: NY A09604 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9604 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires health insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-22 - referred to insurance [A09604 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09604-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9604
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 22, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GIGLIO, GRAF -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Insurance
        AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  health
          insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subsection  (i)  of  section  3216  of  the
     2  insurance law, as added by chapter 41 of the laws of 2014, is amended by
     3  adding a new subparagraph (D) to read as follows:
     4    (D)  Coverage  provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall
     5  be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation  services  shall  be,  at  a
     6  minimum, thirty days.
     7    §  2.  Subparagraph  (D)  of paragraph 31 of subsection (i) of section
     8  3216 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 41 of the laws of 2014,
     9  is relettered subparagraph (E) and a new subparagraph (D)  is  added  to
    10  read as follows:
    11    (D)  Coverage  provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall
    12  be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation  services  shall  be,  at  a
    13  minimum, thirty days.
    14    §  3.  Paragraph  6 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance
    15  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (D) to read as follows:
    16    (D) Coverage provided under this paragraph for  detoxification,  shall
    17  be  at  a  minimum,  seven  days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a
    18  minimum, thirty days.
    19    § 4. Subparagraph (D) of paragraph 7 of subsection (l) of section 3221
    20  of the insurance law is relettered subparagraph (E) and a  new  subpara-
    21  graph (D) is added to read as follows:
    22    (D)  Coverage  provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall
    23  be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation  services  shall  be,  at  a
    24  minimum, thirty days.
    25    §  5.  Paragraph  3 of subsection (k) of section 4303 of the insurance
    26  law, as amended by chapter 41 of the laws of 2014, is  renumbered  para-
    27  graph 4 and a new paragraph 3 is added to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14584-01-6