Bill Text: NY S02319 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain health insurance policies and contracts to provide coverage for human leukocyte antigen testing, also referred to as histocompatible locus antigen testing, for A, B, and DR antigens, for utilization in tissue typing for bone marrow testing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - PRINT NUMBER 2319A [S02319 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02319-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2319--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- 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 requiring policies and
          contracts of insurance providing hospital, surgical, or  medical  care
          coverage to include coverage for human leukocyte antigen testing
          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 33 to read as follows:
     3    (33)  Every  policy which provides hospital, surgical, or medical care
     4  coverage or provides reimbursement for laboratory tests or reimbursement
     5  for diagnostic X-ray services shall provide coverage for human leukocyte
     6  antigen testing, also referred to as histocompatible locus antigen test-
     7  ing, for A, B, and DR antigens for utilization in tissue typing for bone
     8  marrow testing.
     9    § 2. Subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    10  adding a new paragraph 19 to read as follows:
    11    (19) Every group or blanket policy delivered or issued for delivery in
    12  this state which provides hospital, surgical, or medical  care  coverage
    13  shall  provide  coverage  for  human  leukocyte  antigen  testing,  also
    14  referred to as histocompatible locus antigen testing, for A, B,  and  DR
    15  antigens  for  utilization  in  tissue  typing  for bone marrow testing,
    16  except that this provision shall not apply  to  a  policy  which  covers
    17  persons  employed  in  more  than  one state or the benefit structure of
    18  which was the subject of collective bargaining affecting persons who are
    19  employed in more than one state.
    20    § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    21  subsection (qq) to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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