Bill Text: NJ A2758 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits certain health care professionals to waive health insurance copayments for members of military serving on active duty. *

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-12 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A2758 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A2758-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2758

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 8, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

Assemblyman  JOE HOWARTH

District 8 (Atlantic, Burlington and Camden)

Assemblyman  RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  JOE DANIELSEN

District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Holley and C.A.Brown

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits certain health care professionals to waive health insurance copayments for members of military serving on active duty.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee on June 12, 2017, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning certain health benefits plan copayments and supplementing P.L.1997, c.192 (C.26:2S-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a. Notwithstanding any other law or contract provision to the contrary, if a covered person is a member of the military serving on active duty, a primary care physician ¹or an advanced practice nurse¹ may waive that covered person's copayment that would otherwise be collected as payment for treatment by the primary care physician ¹or the advanced practice nurse¹ for a covered service pursuant to a participating provider contract between the primary care physician ¹or the advanced practice nurse¹ and a carrier providing a health benefits plan. 

     b.    For the purposes of this section, "carrier" shall include, in addition to an insurance company, health service corporation, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, or health maintenance organization authorized to issue health benefits plans in this State, the State Health Benefits Commission and the

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the 90^th day next following enactment and shall apply to health benefits plans that are delivered, issued, executed or renewed, or approved for issuance or renewal in this State, on or after the effective date.