Bill Text: NY S00093 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all accident and health insurance policies to provide coverage of medical nutrition therapy; defines medical nutrition therapy to mean the nutritional diagnostic, therapy, and counseling services for the purpose of disease management which are furnished by a dietician or nutrition professional.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S00093 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S00093-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to making coverage for
medical nutrition therapy applicable to insurance policies and
contracts
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 28 to read as follows:
3 (28) EVERY POLICY SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ALL COSTS OF MEDICAL
4 NUTRITION THERAPY, IF RECOMMENDED OR PRESCRIBED BY A PHYSICIAN. FOR
5 PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, "MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY" SHALL MEAN
6 NUTRITIONAL DIAGNOSTIC, THERAPY, AND COUNSELING SERVICES FOR THE PURPOSE
7 OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT WHICH ARE FURNISHED BY A DIETITIAN OR NUTRITION
8 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN OF
9 THE EDUCATION LAW.
10 S 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
11 adding a new paragraph 18 to read as follows:
12 (18) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN
13 THIS STATE WHICH PROVIDES HOSPITAL, SURGICAL OR MEDICAL COVERAGE SHALL
14 PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ALL COSTS OF MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY, IF RECOM-
15 MENDED OR PRESCRIBED BY A PHYSICIAN. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH,
16 "MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY" SHALL MEAN NUTRITIONAL DIAGNOSTIC, THERAPY,
17 AND COUNSELING SERVICES FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT WHICH ARE
18 FURNISHED BY A DIETITIAN OR NUTRITION PROFESSIONAL CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO
19 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
20 S 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
21 subsection (hh) to read as follows:
22 (HH) EVERY CONTRACT ISSUED BY A MEDICAL EXPENSE INDEMNITY CORPORATION,
23 HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATION AND HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR MEDICAL, SURGICAL OR MAJOR MEDICAL CARE SHALL
2 PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ALL COSTS OF MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY, IF RECOM-
3 MENDED OR PRESCRIBED BY A PHYSICIAN. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION,
4 "MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY" SHALL MEAN NUTRITIONAL DIAGNOSTIC, THERAPY,
5 AND COUNSELING SERVICES FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT WHICH ARE
6 FURNISHED BY A DIETITIAN OR NUTRITION PROFESSIONAL CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO
7 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
8 S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
9 it shall have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts
10 issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date; and
11 provided further, that any rules and regulations necessary to implement
12 the provisions of this act are authorized and directed to be promulgat-
13 ed, amended or repealed on or before such effective date.
