Bill Text: NY S00653 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 653 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 653A [S00653 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00653-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         653--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, 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
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the workers' compensation law,  in
          relation  to  coverage  of long term medical care for Lyme disease and
          other tick borne related pathogens
          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) Every insurer issuing a policy of accident and  health  insurance
     4  for  delivery  in  this  state  shall provide coverage for all costs for
     5  treatment of Lyme  disease  (Lyme  borreliosis)  and  other  tick  borne
     6  related  pathogens.  Such  treatment  shall include not less than thirty
     7  days of intravenous antibiotic therapy, sixty days  of  oral  antibiotic
     8  therapy,  or both, and shall provide further treatment if recommended by
     9  a physician licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York.
    10    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    11  adding a new paragraph 19 to read as follows:
    12    (19) Every group or blanket policy delivered or issued for delivery in
    13  this state which provides hospital, surgical or medical  coverage  shall
    14  provide  coverage  for  all  costs  for  treatment of Lyme disease (Lyme
    15  borreliosis) and other tick  borne  related  pathogens.  Such  treatment
    16  shall include not less than thirty days of intravenous antibiotic thera-
    17  py,  sixty  days  of oral antibiotic therapy, or both, and shall provide
    18  further treatment if recommended by a  physician  licensed  to  practice
    19  medicine in the state of New York.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03246-03-6