Bill Text: NY S05869 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits limitations in health insurance contracts or policies with respect to coverage of massage therapy performed by a licensed massage therapist.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-09 - PRINT NUMBER 5869A [S05869 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S05869-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5869--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E July 29, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recom- mitted 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 prohibiting certain limitations or exclusions regarding massage therapy 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 29 to read as follows: 3 (29) NO POLICY WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR MEDICAL CARE SHALL LIMIT OR 4 EXCLUDE COVERAGE OF CARE IN CONNECTION WITH MASSAGE THERAPY PERFORMED BY 5 A MASSAGE THERAPIST LICENSED PURSUANT TO THE EDUCATION LAW. 6 S 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by 7 adding a new paragraph 18 to read as follows: 8 (18) NO GROUP POLICY ISSUED OR DELIVERED IN THIS STATE WHICH PROVIDES 9 COVERAGE FOR MEDICAL CARE SHALL LIMIT OR EXCLUDE COVERAGE OF CARE IN 10 CONNECTION WITH MASSAGE THERAPY PERFORMED BY A MASSAGE THERAPIST 11 LICENSED PURSUANT TO THE EDUCATION LAW. 12 S 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new 13 subsection (ii) to read as follows: 14 (II) NO CONTRACT ISSUED BY A HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION OR A MEDICAL 15 EXPENSE INDEMNITY CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR MEDICAL CARE 16 SHALL LIMIT OR EXCLUDE COVERAGE OF CARE IN CONNECTION WITH MASSAGE THER- 17 APY PERFORMED BY A MASSAGE THERAPIST LICENSED PURSUANT TO THE EDUCATION 18 LAW. 19 S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 20 have become a law and shall apply to policies and contracts issued, 21 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. LBD13307-03-2