Bill Text: NY S07785 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that individuals may receive breast cancer screenings under an insurance plan when such individual has a second degree relative with a prior history of breast cancer.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S07785 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07785-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7785

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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  including  second
          degree  relatives  in certain criteria for breast cancer screenings to
          be covered under insurance plans

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

     1    Section  1. Item (i) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 11 of subsection
     2  (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter  414  of
     3  the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may be
     5  provided by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons  having
     6  a  prior  history  of breast cancer or who have a first or second degree
     7  relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
     8    § 2. Item (i) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 11 of subsection (l) of
     9  section 3221 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 143 of the laws
    10  of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    11    (i) upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may  be
    12  provided  by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons having
    13  a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first  or  second  degree
    14  relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
    15    § 3. Subparagraph (A) of paragraph 1 of subsection (p) of section 4303
    16  of  the insurance law, as amended by chapter 414 of the laws of 2017, is
    17  amended to read as follows:
    18    (A) upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may  be
    19  provided  by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons having
    20  a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first  or  second  degree
    21  relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
    22    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts  issued,
    24  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.
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