Bill Text: NY S07506 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain health and casualty insurers to provide coverage for prenatal vitamins.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - referred to insurance [S07506 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07506-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7506 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE November 5, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage for prenatal vitamins 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 10-a to read as follows: 3 (10-a)(A) Every policy which provides coverage for prescription drugs 4 shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when prescribed or ordered 5 by a health care provider legally authorized to prescribe under title 6 eight of the education law. 7 (B) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance 8 as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent 9 with those established for other benefits within a given policy. 10 § 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by 11 adding a new paragraph 5-a to read as follows: 12 (5-a)(A) Every group or blanket policy which provides coverage for 13 prescription drugs shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when 14 prescribed or ordered by a health care provider legally authorized to 15 prescribe under title eight of the education law. 16 (B) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsu- 17 rance, as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are 18 consistent with those established for other benefits within a given 19 policy. 20 § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new 21 subsection (c-1) to read as follows: 22 (c-1)(1) Every contract issued by a corporation subject to the 23 provisions of this article which provides coverage for prescription 24 drugs shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when prescribed or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02608-01-1S. 7506 2 1 ordered by a health care provider legally authorized to prescribe under 2 title eight of the education law. 3 (2) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance 4 as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent 5 with those established for other benefits within a given contract. 6 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 7 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to 8 policies issued, reissued, renewed, modified or amended on or after such 9 date.