Bill Text: NY A03865 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain health and casualty insurers to provide coverage for prenatal vitamins.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)

Status: (Passed) 2024-10-01 - approval memo.7 [A03865 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03865-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3865--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER, ROZIC, JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Insurance -- recommitted to the Committee
          on Insurance in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage for prenatal
          vitamins

          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 10-a to read as follows:
     3    (10-a)(A) Every policy that provides medical, major medical, or  simi-
     4  lar  comprehensive-type  coverage and provides coverage for prescription
     5  drugs shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when prescribed by  a
     6  health  care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized under title
     7  eight of the education law, and acting within his or her lawful scope of
     8  practice.
     9    (B) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance
    10  as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent
    11  with those established for other benefits within a given policy.
    12    § 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    13  adding a new paragraph 5-a to read as follows:
    14    (5-a)(A) Every policy that provides medical, major medical, or similar
    15  comprehensive-type coverage and provides coverage for prescription drugs
    16  shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when prescribed by a health
    17  care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized under  title  eight
    18  of the education law, and acting within his or her lawful scope of prac-
    19  tice.
    20    (B)  Such  coverage  may  be subject to annual deductibles and coinsu-
    21  rance, as may be deemed appropriate by the  superintendent  and  as  are

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  consistent  with  those  established  for  other benefits within a given
     2  policy.
     3    §  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
     4  subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
     5    (c-1)(1) Any contract issued by a  medical  expense  indemnity  corpo-
     6  ration,  a hospital service corporation or a health services corporation
     7  that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall provide coverage for
     8  prenatal  vitamins  when  prescribed  by  a  health  care   practitioner
     9  licensed,  certified,  or  authorized under title eight of the education
    10  law, and acting within his or her lawful scope of practice.
    11    (2) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance
    12  as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent
    13  with those established for other benefits within a given contract.
    14    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    15  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
    16  policies issued, reissued, renewed, modified or amended on or after such
    17  date.