Bill Text: NY S01847 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurance contracts and policies to include coverage for ovarian/primary peritoneal cancer screening.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S01847 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01847-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1847
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- 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 providing  for  health
         insurance  coverage for diagnostic screening for ovarian/primary peri-
         toneal cancer
         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 11-b to read as follows:
    3    (11-B) (A) EVERY POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN THIS STATE
    4  WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL COVERAGE THAT  INCLUDES  COVERAGE  FOR  PHYSICIAN
    5  SERVICES  IN  A PHYSICIAN'S OFFICE AND EVERY POLICY WHICH PROVIDES MAJOR
    6  MEDICAL OR SIMILAR COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE SHALL PROVIDE,  UPON  THE
    7  PRESCRIPTION  OF  A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO PRESCRIBE
    8  UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW, THE FOLLOWING COVERAGE FOR DIAG-
    9  NOSTIC SCREENING FOR OVARIAN/PRIMARY PERITONEAL CANCER: AN ANNUAL STAND-
   10  ARD DIAGNOSTIC EXAM INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, A PELVIC  EXAMINATION
   11  AND A CA 125 BLOOD TEST FOR WOMEN AGE TWENTY AND OVER.
   12    (B) SUCH COVERAGE MAY BE SUBJECT TO ANNUAL DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE
   13  AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT AND AS ARE CONSISTENT
   14  WITH THOSE ESTABLISHED FOR OTHER BENEFITS WITHIN A GIVEN POLICY.
   15    S 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
   16  adding a new paragraph 11-b to read as follows:
   17    (11-B) (A) EVERY POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN THIS STATE
   18  WHICH  PROVIDES  MEDICAL  COVERAGE  THAT INCLUDES COVERAGE FOR PHYSICIAN
   19  SERVICES IN A PHYSICIAN'S OFFICE AND EVERY POLICY WHICH  PROVIDES  MAJOR
   20  MEDICAL  OR  SIMILAR COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE SHALL PROVIDE, UPON THE
   21  PRESCRIPTION OF A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER LEGALLY AUTHORIZED  TO  PRESCRIBE
   22  UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW, THE FOLLOWING COVERAGE FOR DIAG-
   23  NOSTIC SCREENING FOR OVARIAN/PRIMARY PERITONEAL CANCER: AN ANNUAL STAND-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06157-01-3
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    1  ARD  DIAGNOSTIC EXAM INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, A PELVIC EXAMINATION
    2  AND A CA 125 BLOOD TEST FOR WOMEN AGE TWENTY AND OVER.
    3    (B) SUCH COVERAGE MAY BE SUBJECT TO ANNUAL DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE
    4  AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT AND AS ARE CONSISTENT
    5  WITH THOSE ESTABLISHED FOR OTHER BENEFITS WITHIN A GIVEN POLICY.
    6    S  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    7  subsection (z-2) to read as follows:
    8    (Z-2)(1) EVERY POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN  THIS  STATE
    9  WHICH  PROVIDES  MEDICAL  COVERAGE  THAT INCLUDES COVERAGE FOR PHYSICIAN
   10  SERVICES IN A PHYSICIAN'S OFFICE AND EVERY POLICY WHICH  PROVIDES  MAJOR
   11  MEDICAL  OR  SIMILAR COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE SHALL PROVIDE, UPON THE
   12  PRESCRIPTION OR A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER LEGALLY AUTHORIZED  TO  PRESCRIBE
   13  UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW, THE FOLLOWING COVERAGE FOR DIAG-
   14  NOSTIC SCREENING FOR OVARIAN/PRIMARY PERITONEAL CANCER:  AN ANNUAL STAN-
   15  DARD DIAGNOSTIC EXAM INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, A PELVIC EXAMINATION
   16  AND A CA 125 BLOOD TEST FOR WOMEN AGE TWENTY AND OVER.
   17    (2) SUCH COVERAGE MAY BE SUBJECT TO ANNUAL DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE
   18  AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT AND AS ARE CONSISTENT
   19  WITH THOSE ESTABLISHED FOR OTHER BENEFITS WITHIN A GIVEN POLICY.
   20    S  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   21  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.