Bill Text: NY S04643 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4643 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting insurance companies from imposing co-payments for treatment at an opioid treatment program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S04643 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04643-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4643--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 19, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. HARCKHAM, MARTINEZ, RAMOS, SALAZAR, SKOUFIS -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  prohibiting  co-pay-
          ments for treatment at an opioid treatment program

          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 31-b to read as follows:
     3    (31-b)  Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
     4  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
     5  treatment on any insured for such treatment. For the  purposes  of  this
     6  section  "opioid  treatment  program"  means  a  program or practitioner
     7  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with an opioid agonist treat-
     8  ment medication.
     9    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    10  adding a new paragraph 7-c to read as follows:
    11    (7-c) Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at  an  opioid
    12  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
    13  treatment  on  any insured for such treatment.  For the purposes of this
    14  section "opioid treatment  program"  means  a  program  or  practitioner
    15  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with an opioid agonist treat-
    16  ment medication.
    17    §  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    18  subsection (l-3) to read as follows:
    19    (l-3) Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at  an  opioid
    20  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
    21  treatment  on  any insured for such treatment.  For the purposes of this
    22  section "opioid treatment  program"  means  a  program  or  practitioner

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04805-03-9

        S. 4643--A                          2

     1  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with an opioid agonist treat-
     2  ment medication.
     3    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     4  ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
     5  policies  and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on
     6  and after such date.