Bill Text: NY S05064 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurers to accept premium and cost sharing payments from third parties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05064-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5064
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 29, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
         to requiring health insurers to accept third party payments for cover-
         age
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  4406-c  of  the  public health law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
    3    9. WITH REGARD TO A SUBSCRIBER CONTRACT OFFERED THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL
    4  MARKET, A HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION SHALL NOT BY  CONTRACT  OR  IN
    5  ANY  OTHER  MANNER REFUSE TO ACCEPT PREMIUM OR ANY REQUIRED COST SHARING
    6  PAYMENTS FROM THIRD PARTIES.
    7    S 2. Section 3217-b of the insurance law is amended by  adding  a  new
    8  subsection (k) to read as follows:
    9    (K)  WITH REGARD TO AN INSURANCE POLICY OFFERED THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL
   10  MARKET, AN INSURER SHALL NOT BY CONTRACT OR IN ANY OTHER  MANNER  REFUSE
   11  TO  ACCEPT  PREMIUM  OR  ANY  REQUIRED  COST SHARING PAYMENTS FROM THIRD
   12  PARTIES.
   13    S 3. Section 4325 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
   14  subsection (l) to read as follows:
   15    (L)  WITH REGARD TO AN INSURANCE CONTRACT OFFERED THROUGH THE INDIVID-
   16  UAL MARKET, A CORPORATION ORGANIZED UNDER  THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL  NOT  BY
   17  CONTRACT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER REFUSE TO ACCEPT PREMIUM OR ANY REQUIRED
   18  COST SHARING PAYMENTS FROM THIRD PARTIES.
   19    S  4.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
   20  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended  on
   21  or after January 1, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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