Bill Text: NY S02212 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits approved organizations providing coverage under the child health insurance plan from discriminating against health care providers which do not participate in the organization's health care network.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-09 - SUBSTITUTED BY A1523 [S02212 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02212-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2212 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 20, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 prohibiting approved organizations in the child health insurance plan from limit- ing the participation of certain health care providers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2511 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows: 3 (d) No approved organization shall prohibit or in any way limit the 4 provision of covered health care services by a health care provider on 5 the grounds that such provider chooses not to participate in a health 6 care network maintained by such approved organization to serve commer- 7 cial insureds, enrollees or subscribers. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00216-01-1
