Bill Text: NY A03149 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3149

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to actions by health care providers against patients; provides that it shall be an affirmative defense to an action by a health care provider against a patient for recovery of payment for an outstanding bill that such health care provider failed to submit such insurance claim to the patient's insurer in a timely manner.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - referred to insurance [A03149 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03149-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3149

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. COLTON, MILLER, CRUZ, SAYEGH, EPSTEIN, HYNDMAN,
          STIRPE, TAYLOR, DAVILA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,  RIVERA
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to actions by health care
          providers against patients

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

     1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3224-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3224-e. Actions  by  health  care  providers  related  to  insurance
     4  claims.  In  any  action  brought  by  a  health care provider against a
     5  patient to  recover  payment  for  an  outstanding  bill,  for  services
     6  rendered  by  such  health  care  provider,  it  shall be an affirmative
     7  defense to such action that the health care provider  failed  to  submit
     8  the insurance claim to the patient's insurer in a timely manner.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law, and shall apply to civil actions brought on or  after
    11  such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06504-01-5