Bill Text: NY S02058 | 2013-2014 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-13 - PRINT NUMBER 2058A [S02058 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02058-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2058--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 10, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sens. LATIMER, CARLUCCI, DILAN, ESPAILLAT, KENNEDY, MONT-
         GOMERY, PARKER, SAMPSON -- read twice and ordered  printed,  and  when
         printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- recommitted
         to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
         -- 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 30 to read as follows:
    3    (30) 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
   18  WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AFFECTING PERSONS WHO ARE
   19  EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05133-02-4
       S. 2058--A                          2
    1    S  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    2  subsection (oo) to read as follows:
    3    (OO)  A  MEDICAL  EXPENSE  INDEMNITY  CORPORATION,  A HOSPITAL SERVICE
    4  CORPORATION OR A HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE  FOR
    5  HOSPITAL,  SURGICAL,  OR  MEDICAL  CARE SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN
    6  LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN TESTING, ALSO REFERRED  TO  AS  HISTOCOMPATIBLE  LOCUS
    7  ANTIGEN  TESTING,  FOR  A,  B, AND DR ANTIGENS FOR UTILIZATION IN TISSUE
    8  TYPING FOR BONE MARROW TESTING, EXCEPT THAT  THIS  PROVISION  SHALL  NOT
    9  APPLY TO A CONTRACT WHICH COVERS PERSONS EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE
   10  OR THE BENEFIT STRUCTURE OF WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAIN-
   11  ING AFFECTING PERSONS WHO ARE EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE.
   12    S 4.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   13  ing  the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all
   14  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on
   15  or after such effective date. Effective immediately any rules  or  regu-
   16  lations  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective
   17  date shall be promulgated, and any  other  measures  necessary  for  the
   18  implementation  of  this act on its effective date shall be taken, on or
   19  before such effective date.