Bill Text: NY A06459 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain health insurance policies and contracts to provide coverage for human leukocyte antigen testing, also referred to as histocompatible locus antigen testing, for A, B, and DR antigens, for utilization in tissue typing for bone marrow testing.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-13 - print number 6459a [A06459 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06459-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6459--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 17, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LATIMER,  AUBRY,  JAFFEE, ZEBROWSKI, REILLY,
         BURLING, GUNTHER,  ROSENTHAL,  WEPRIN,  MILLMAN,  GALEF,  SCARBOROUGH,
         STEVENSON,  ROBINSON, BARRON, MAISEL, PERRY, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A.  ABINANTI, BRENNAN, CERETTO, GIBSON,  MARKEY,  McENENY,
         P. RIVERA,  SCHIMEL  --  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 requiring policies and
         contracts of insurance providing hospital, surgical, or  medical  care
         coverage to include coverage for human leukocyte antigen 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 29 to read as follows:
    3    (29)  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 LEUKOCYTE
    6  ANTIGEN TESTING, ALSO REFERRED TO AS HISTOCOMPATIBLE LOCUS ANTIGEN TEST-
    7  ING, FOR A, B, AND DR ANTIGENS FOR UTILIZATION IN TISSUE TYPING FOR BONE
    8  MARROW TESTING.
    9    S 2. Subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
   10  adding a new paragraph 19 to read as follows:
   11    (19) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN
   12  THIS STATE WHICH PROVIDES HOSPITAL, SURGICAL, OR MEDICAL  CARE  COVERAGE
   13  SHALL  PROVIDE  COVERAGE  FOR  HUMAN  LEUKOCYTE  ANTIGEN  TESTING,  ALSO
   14  REFERRED TO AS HISTOCOMPATIBLE LOCUS ANTIGEN TESTING, FOR A, B,  AND  DR
   15  ANTIGENS  FOR  UTILIZATION  IN  TISSUE  TYPING  FOR BONE MARROW TESTING,
   16  EXCEPT THAT THIS PROVISION SHALL NOT APPLY  TO  A  POLICY  WHICH  COVERS
   17  PERSONS  EMPLOYED  IN  MORE  THAN  ONE STATE OR THE BENEFIT STRUCTURE OF
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10098-07-2
       A. 6459--A                          2
    1  WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AFFECTING PERSONS WHO ARE
    2  EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE.
    3    S  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    4  subsection (ii) to read as follows:
    5    (II) A MEDICAL  EXPENSE  INDEMNITY  CORPORATION,  A  HOSPITAL  SERVICE
    6  CORPORATION  OR A HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR
    7  HOSPITAL, SURGICAL, OR MEDICAL CARE SHALL  PROVIDE  COVERAGE  FOR  HUMAN
    8  LEUKOCYTE  ANTIGEN  TESTING,  ALSO  REFERRED TO AS HISTOCOMPATIBLE LOCUS
    9  ANTIGEN TESTING, FOR A, B, AND DR ANTIGENS  FOR  UTILIZATION  IN  TISSUE
   10  TYPING  FOR  BONE  MARROW  TESTING, EXCEPT THAT THIS PROVISION SHALL NOT
   11  APPLY TO A CONTRACT WHICH COVERS PERSONS EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE
   12  OR THE BENEFIT STRUCTURE OF WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAIN-
   13  ING AFFECTING PERSONS WHO ARE EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE.
   14    S 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  all
   16  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on
   17  or  after  such effective date. Effective immediately any rules or regu-
   18  lations necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its  effective
   19  date  shall  be  promulgated,  and  any other measures necessary for the
   20  implementation of this act on its effective date shall be taken,  on  or
   21  before such effective date.