Bill Text: NY A05442 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide insurance coverage for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to insurance [A05442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05442-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5442
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL,  GUNTHER, GOTTFRIED, SCARBOROUGH,
         ZEBROWSKI, COLTON, DINOWITZ, DenDEKKER, BROOK-KRASNY, TITONE,  MAGNAR-
         ELLI  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, CAHILL, GLICK, LUPAR-
         DO, MARKEY, McDONOUGH, PERRY, RUSSELL, THIELE, WRIGHT -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring health  care
         service  plans  and  health insurers to provide insurance coverage for
         human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing
         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 HOSPITAL, SURGICAL  OR  MEDICAL  CARE
    4  COVERAGE OR PROVIDES REIMBURSEMENT FOR LABORATORY TESTS OR REIMBURSEMENT
    5  FOR DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN IMMUNODE-
    6  FICIENCY  VIRUS  (HIV)  TESTING,  REGARDLESS  OF  WHETHER THE TESTING IS
    7  RELATED TO A PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS.
    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) A GROUP OR BLANKET ACCIDENT OR HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY OR ISSUING
   11  A GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY FOR DELIVERY  IN  THIS  STATE  WHICH  PROVIDES
   12  COVERAGE  FOR  HOSPITAL,  SURGICAL, OR MEDICAL CARE COVERAGE OR PROVIDES
   13  REIMBURSEMENT FOR LABORATORY TESTS OR REIMBURSEMENT FOR DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY
   14  SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY  VIRUS  (HIV)
   15  TESTING, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE TESTING IS RELATED TO A PRIMARY DIAG-
   16  NOSIS.
   17    S  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
   18  subsection (pp) to read as follows:
   19    (PP) A MEDICAL  EXPENSE  INDEMNITY  CORPORATION,  A  HOSPITAL  SERVICE
   20  CORPORATION  OR A HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR
   21  HOSPITAL, SURGICAL, OR MEDICAL CARE COVERAGE OR  PROVIDES  REIMBURSEMENT
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07583-02-5
       A. 5442                             2
    1  FOR  LABORATORY  TESTS  OR  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY SERVICES
    2  SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS  (HIV)  TESTING,
    3  REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE TESTING IS RELATED TO A PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS.
    4    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.