Bill Text: NY S00756 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 756 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires providers of health care policies to provide coverage for colorectal cancer early detection for persons fifty years of age or older; requires the superintendent of financial services to provide notification to enrollees of such coverage via mail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 756A [S00756 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00756-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         756--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, in relation  to  providing  insurance
          coverage for colorectal cancer early detection
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 27 of subsection  (i)  of  section  3216  of  the
     2  insurance  law,  as  added by chapter 457 of the laws of 2010, is renum-
     3  bered paragraph 33, paragraph 28 of subsection (i) of  section  3216  of
     4  the  insurance  law,  as  amended  by chapter 11 of the laws of 2012, is
     5  renumbered paragraph 34 and a new paragraph  35  is  added  to  read  as
     6  follows:
     7    (35) (A) Every policy which provides coverage pursuant to this section
     8  shall  provide  coverage to any named subscriber or other person covered
     9  thereunder for expenses incurred in conducting colorectal  cancer  exam-
    10  inations  and  laboratory tests at regular intervals, including expenses
    11  incurred in conducting physician  consultations  for  colorectal  cancer
    12  prior  to such examinations and tests, for persons fifty years of age or
    13  older and for persons of any age who are considered to be at  high  risk
    14  for colorectal cancer. The methods of screening for which benefits shall
    15  be provided shall include but not be limited to:
    16    (i) a screening fecal occult blood test;
    17    (ii) flexible sigmoidoscopy;
    18    (iii) colonoscopy;
    19    (iv) barium enema; or
    20    (v)  the most reliable, medically recognized screening test available;
    21  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01543-02-6