Bill Text: NY A04952 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurers covering surgery to cover all expenses incurred in connection with autologous blood transfusions (self-donated); applies to individual and group policies and to medical expense indemnity and hospital or health service corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to insurance [A04952 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04952-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4952
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 9, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CURRAN, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  requiring  insurance
         policies covering surgery to cover all expenses incurred in connection
         with autologous blood transfusions
         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 32 to read as follows:
    3    (32)  EVERY  POLICY  WHICH  PROVIDES  SURGICAL  COVERAGE SHALL PROVIDE
    4  COVERAGE FOR ALL EXPENSES INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH  AUTOLOGOUS  BLOOD
    5  TRANSFUSIONS  USED FOR OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR SURGERY, INCLUDING THE
    6  COLLECTION OF BLOOD PRIOR TO SURGERY AND THE TRANSFUSION OF  SUCH  BLOOD
    7  INTO THE INSURED, WHETHER DONE BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER SURGERY.
    8    S 2. Subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    9  adding a new paragraph 19 to read as follows:
   10    (19) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN
   11  THIS  STATE  WHICH PROVIDES SURGICAL COVERAGE SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR
   12  ALL EXPENSES INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH AUTOLOGOUS  BLOOD  TRANSFUSIONS
   13  USED FOR OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR SURGERY, INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF
   14  BLOOD  PRIOR  TO  SURGERY  AND  THE  TRANSFUSION  OF SUCH BLOOD INTO THE
   15  INSURED, WHETHER DONE BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER SURGERY.
   16    S 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
   17  subsection (pp) to read as follows:
   18    (PP)  A  MEDICAL  EXPENSE  INDEMNITY  CORPORATION,  A HOSPITAL SERVICE
   19  CORPORATION, OR A HEALTH SERVICE  CORPORATION  WHICH  PROVIDES  SURGICAL
   20  COVERAGE  SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ALL EXPENSES INCURRED IN CONNECTION
   21  WITH AUTOLOGOUS BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS USED FOR OR INTENDED TO BE  USED  FOR
   22  SURGERY,  INCLUDING  THE  COLLECTION  OF  BLOOD PRIOR TO SURGERY AND THE
   23  TRANSFUSION OF SUCH BLOOD INTO THE INSURED, WHETHER DONE BEFORE, DURING,
   24  OR AFTER SURGERY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 4952                             2
    1    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    2  ing  the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all
    3  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on
    4  or after such date.