Bill Text: NY S02058 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2058
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- 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 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.
   20    S 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
   21  subsection (jj) to read as follows:
   22    (JJ)  A  MEDICAL  EXPENSE  INDEMNITY  CORPORATION,  A HOSPITAL SERVICE
   23  CORPORATION OR A HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE  FOR
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05133-01-3
       S. 2058                             2
    1  HOSPITAL,  SURGICAL,  OR  MEDICAL  CARE SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR HUMAN
    2  LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN TESTING, ALSO REFERRED  TO  AS  HISTOCOMPATIBLE  LOCUS
    3  ANTIGEN  TESTING,  FOR  A,  B, AND DR ANTIGENS FOR UTILIZATION IN TISSUE
    4  TYPING  FOR  BONE  MARROW  TESTING, EXCEPT THAT THIS PROVISION SHALL NOT
    5  APPLY TO A CONTRACT WHICH COVERS PERSONS EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE
    6  OR THE BENEFIT STRUCTURE OF WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAIN-
    7  ING AFFECTING PERSONS WHO ARE EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE.
    8    S 4.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to  all
   10  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on
   11  or  after  such effective date. Effective immediately any rules or regu-
   12  lations necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its  effective
   13  date  shall  be  promulgated,  and  any other measures necessary for the
   14  implementation of this act on its effective date shall be taken,  on  or
   15  before such effective date.