S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3510 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 11, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PANEPINTO -- 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 health insurance coverage for follow-up ultrasound for breast cancer screening THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 11 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the 2 insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as 3 follows: 4 (F) SUCH COVERAGE SHALL ALSO BE PROVIDED, UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF A 5 PHYSICIAN, FOR A FOLLOW-UP ULTRASOUND, IN THE EVENT THAT A PHYSICIAN 6 DETERMINES THAT A COVERED PERSON HAS EXTREMELY DENSE OR HETEROGENEOUSLY 7 DENSE BREAST TISSUE. 8 S 2. Paragraph 11 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance 9 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as follows: 10 (F) SUCH COVERAGE SHALL ALSO BE PROVIDED, UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF A 11 PHYSICIAN, FOR A FOLLOW-UP ULTRASOUND, IN THE EVENT THAT A PHYSICIAN 12 DETERMINES THAT A COVERED PERSON HAS EXTREMELY DENSE OR HETEROGENEOUSLY 13 DENSE BREAST TISSUE. 14 S 3. Subsection (p) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by 15 adding a new paragraph 5 to read as follows: 16 (5) SUCH COVERAGE SHALL ALSO BE PROVIDED, UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF A 17 PHYSICIAN, FOR A FOLLOW-UP ULTRASOUND, IN THE EVENT THAT A PHYSICIAN 18 DETERMINES THAT A COVERED PERSON HAS EXTREMELY DENSE OR HETEROGENEOUSLY 19 DENSE BREAST TISSUE. 20 S 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 21 have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts issued, 22 renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00657-01-5