STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6818 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 10, 2023 ___________ 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. LBD10907-01-3S. 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.