Bill Text: NY S00279 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits insurance companies from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with a physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription which was initially written for seven days or less.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S00279 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00279-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           279
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting  insurance
          companies  from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with a
          physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription
          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 35 to read as follows:
     3    (35)  Every  policy  which   provides   coverage   for   opioid   drug
     4  prescriptions shall not impose any fee, co-payment, co-insurance, deduc-
     5  tible  or  other  condition  on  any  insured  who  requires a follow up
     6  appointment to receive an  additional  opioid  drug  prescription  or  a
     7  refill  of an opioid drug prescription after an initial prescription for
     8  such opioid drug prescription which was written for a  period  of  seven
     9  days  or  less.  Such  prohibition on any fee, co-payment, co-insurance,
    10  deductible or other condition is limited to  one  visit  or  one  refill
    11  after  the  initial  appointment  or prescription.   Upon any subsequent
    12  consultation for the same pain, the practitioner may issue,  in  accord-
    13  ance  with  this  subsection,  any  appropriate  renewal, refill, or new
    14  prescription for the opioid or any other drug.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02495-01-9