Bill Text: NY S08553 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires that health insurance policies shall provide coverage for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer; provides that no patient cost sharing shall be imposed for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - referred to insurance [S08553 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08553-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8553--C
            Cal. No. 886

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sens. ADDABBO, CLEARE, COONEY, SKOUFIS -- 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  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first
          and  second  report,  ordered  to a third reading, amended and ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the insurance  law  and  the  social  services  law,  in
          relation  to mandatory health insurance coverage for follow-up screen-
          ing or diagnostic services for lung cancer

          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 39 to read as follows:
     3    (39) (A) Every policy which provides medical, major medical, or  simi-
     4  lar  comprehensive-type  coverage  shall  provide coverage for follow-up
     5  screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer when recommended  by  a
     6  health  care  provider  acting  within  the provider's scope of practice
     7  pursuant to title eight of the education law.
     8    (B) Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law,  any  policy  that
     9  provides  coverage  required  by this paragraph shall not impose patient
    10  cost sharing for follow-up screening or  diagnostic  services  for  lung
    11  cancer.
    12    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    13  adding a new paragraph 22 to read as follows:
    14    (22)  (A) Every policy which provides medical, major medical, or simi-
    15  lar comprehensive-type coverage shall  provide  coverage  for  follow-up
    16  screening  or  diagnostic services for lung cancer when recommended by a
    17  health care provider acting within  the  provider's  scope  of  practice
    18  pursuant to title eight of the education law.
    19    (B)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  any policy that
    20  provides coverage required by this paragraph shall  not  impose  patient

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14523-05-4
        S. 8553--C                          2

     1  cost  sharing  for  follow-up  screening or diagnostic services for lung
     2  cancer.
     3    §  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
     4  subsection (vv) to read as follows:
     5    (vv) (1) Every policy which provides medical, major medical, or  simi-
     6  lar  comprehensive-type  coverage  shall  provide coverage for follow-up
     7  screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer when recommended  by  a
     8  health  care  provider  acting  within  the provider's scope of practice
     9  pursuant to title eight of the education law.
    10    (2) Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law,  any  policy  that
    11  provides  coverage  required by this subsection shall not impose patient
    12  cost sharing for follow-up screening or  diagnostic  services  for  lung
    13  cancer.
    14    §  4.  Subdivision  2  of  section 365-a of the social services law is
    15  amended by adding a new paragraph (nn) to read as follows:
    16     (nn) (i) follow-up screening or diagnostic services for  lung  cancer
    17  when  recommended by a health care provider acting within the provider's
    18  scope of practice pursuant to title eight of the education law.
    19    (ii) notwithstanding any other provision of law, coverage required  by
    20  this  paragraph  shall  not  impose  patient  cost sharing for follow-up
    21  screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer.
    22    § 5. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026 and shall apply to all
    23  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended  on
    24  or after such date.