Bill Text: NY S06818 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes individuals treated with opioid partial agonist treatment medication as being in an opioid treatment program for the purposes of certain insurance coverage and co-payments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S06818 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06818-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6818

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 including individuals
          treated with opioid partial agonist treatment medication as  being  in
          an  opioid  treatment  program  for  the purposes of certain insurance
          coverage and co-payments

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  31-b  of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the
     2  insurance law, as added by chapter 734 of the laws of 2022,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (31-b)  Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
     5  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
     6  treatment on any insured for such treatment. For the  purposes  of  this
     7  section  "opioid  treatment  program"  means  a  program or practitioner
     8  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with  an  opioid  agonist  or
     9  opioid partial agonist treatment medication.
    10    §  2. Paragraph 7-b of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance
    11  law, as added by chapter 734 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read  as
    12  follows:
    13    (7-b)  Every  policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
    14  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
    15  treatment on any insured for such treatment. For the  purposes  of  this
    16  section  "opioid  treatment  program"  means  a  program or practitioner
    17  engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with  an  opioid  agonist  or
    18  opioid partial agonist treatment medication.
    19    §  3.  Subsection (l-2) of section 4303 of the insurance law, as added
    20  by chapter 734 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
    21    (l-2) Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at  an  opioid
    22  treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
    23  treatment  on  any  insured for such treatment. For the purposes of this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10907-01-3
        S. 6818                             2

     1  section "opioid treatment  program"  means  a  program  or  practitioner
     2  engaged  in  opioid  treatment  of individuals with an opioid agonist or
     3  opioid partial agonist treatment medication.
     4    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to poli-
     5  cies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on  and
     6  after such date.