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