Bill Text: NY S02189 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands health care plan contract coverage for any health care provider for one hundred twenty days after the termination of such contract.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02189 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02189-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2189

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  expanding  health
          care  plan  contract  coverage  for  any  health care provider for one
          hundred twenty days after the termination of such contract

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5-d of section 4406-c of the public health law,
     2  as  added by chapter 451 of the laws of 2007, and as relettered by chap-
     3  ter 237 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    5-d. If a contract between a plan and [a  hospital]  any  health  care
     5  provider  is  not  renewed or is terminated by either party, the parties
     6  shall continue to  abide  by  the  terms  of  such  contract,  including
     7  reimbursement  terms,  for  a  period of [two months] one hundred twenty
     8  days from the effective date of termination or, in the case of a non-re-
     9  newal, from the end of the contract period. Notice shall be provided  to
    10  all  enrollees  potentially  affected by such termination or non-renewal
    11  within fifteen days after commencement of the [two-months]  one  hundred
    12  twenty  day  period.  The commissioner shall have the authority to waive
    13  the [two-months] one hundred twenty  day  period  upon  the  request  of
    14  either  party  to  a  contract  that is being terminated for cause. This
    15  subdivision shall not apply where both parties mutually agree in writing
    16  to the termination or non-renewal and the plan provides  notice  to  the
    17  enrollee  at least thirty days in advance of the date of contract termi-
    18  nation.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided,  however  that
    20  the  amendments    to    subdivision 5-d of section 4406-c of the public
    21  health law made by section one of this act shall  not affect the  repeal
    22  of such subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01379-01-3