Bill Text: NY S06146 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires insurers to provide coverage for tattooing of the nipple-areolar complex pursuant to or as part of breast reconstruction surgery if such tattooing is performed by a physician or other health care practitioner working within their scope of practice.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-29 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5729A [S06146 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06146-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6146--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 30, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 requiring certain
          insurers to provide coverage for tattooing performed by a physician as
          part of breast reconstruction surgery

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  20  of  subsection  (i) of section 3216 of the
     2  insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (A-1) to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (A-1)  Every policy providing coverage as required by subparagraph (A)
     5  of this paragraph shall also provide coverage for the tattooing  of  the
     6  nipple-areolar  complex pursuant to or as part of such reconstruction if
     7  such tattooing is performed by a licensed physician or other health care
     8  practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized pursuant to title  eight
     9  of the education law and acting within their scope of practice.
    10    §  2.  Paragraph 10 of subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance
    11  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (A-1) to read as follows:
    12    (A-1) Every group or blanket policy providing coverage as required  by
    13  subparagraph  (A)  of this paragraph shall also provide coverage for the
    14  tattooing of the nipple-areolar complex pursuant to or as part  of  such
    15  reconstruction if such tattooing is performed by a licensed physician or
    16  other health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized pursu-
    17  ant to title eight of the education law and acting within their scope of
    18  practice.
    19    § 3. Subsection (x) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
    20  adding a new paragraph 1-A to read as follows:
    21    (1-A)  Every  contract providing coverage as required by paragraph one
    22  of this subsection shall also provide coverage for the tattooing of  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05882-05-3
        S. 6146--A                          2

     1  nipple-areolar  complex pursuant to or as part of such reconstruction if
     2  such tattooing is performed by a licensed physician or other health care
     3  practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized pursuant to title  eight
     4  of the education law and acting within their scope of practice.
     5    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     6  ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
     7  policies issued, reissued, renewed, modified or amended on or after such
     8  date.