Bill Text: NY A02401 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to insurance [A02401 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02401-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2401

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  health
          insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subsection  (i)  of  section  3216  of  the
     2  insurance  law, as amended by section 5 of subpart A of part BB of chap-
     3  ter 57 of the laws of 2019, is amended by adding a new subparagraph  (H)
     4  to read as follows:
     5    (H)  Coverage  provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall
     6  be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation  services  shall  be,  at  a
     7  minimum, thirty days.
     8    §  2.  Paragraph 31 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance
     9  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (J) to read as follows:
    10    (J) Coverage provided under this paragraph for  detoxification,  shall
    11  be  at  a  minimum,  seven  days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a
    12  minimum, thirty days.
    13    § 3. Paragraph 6 of subsection (l) of section 3221  of  the  insurance
    14  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (H) to read as follows:
    15    (H)  Coverage  provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall
    16  be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation  services  shall  be,  at  a
    17  minimum, thirty days.
    18    §  4.  Paragraph  7 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance
    19  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (J) to read as follows:
    20    (J) Coverage provided under this paragraph for  detoxification,  shall
    21  be  at  a  minimum,  seven  days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a
    22  minimum, thirty days.
    23    § 5. Subsection (k) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
    24  adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05631-01-3
        A. 2401                             2

     1    (8) Coverage provided under this subsection for detoxification,  shall
     2  be  at  a  minimum,  seven  days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a
     3  minimum, thirty days.
     4    § 6. Subsection (l) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
     5  adding a new paragraph 10 to read as follows:
     6    (10) Coverage provided under this subsection for detoxification, shall
     7  be  at  a  minimum,  seven  days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a
     8  minimum, thirty days.
     9    § 7. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.