Bill Text: NY A00354 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that group health insurance policies offered in the large group market that is issued, amended, or renewed in this state shall provide coverage for corrective lenses used to correct the sight of individuals medically diagnosed with color vision deficiency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to insurance [A00354 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00354-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 354 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to providing reimburse- ment for certain corrective lenses used to correct color vision defi- ciency The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by adding a 2 new subsection (t) to read as follows: 3 (t) (1) Every group health insurance policy offered in the large group 4 market that is issued, amended, or renewed in this state shall provide 5 coverage for corrective lenses used to correct the sight of individuals 6 medically diagnosed with color vision deficiency. 7 (2) An insured person shall be entitled to reimbursement of up to four 8 hundred dollars every thirty-six months for expenses related to the 9 purchase of up to one pair of corrective lenses. 10 (3) The insured person may choose corrective lenses exceeding the 11 amount of coverage required by this section and shall be liable for the 12 difference in cost. Reimbursement shall be provided according to the 13 respective principles and policies of the health insurance plan and may 14 include such policy provisions as deductibles, coinsurance, allowable 15 charge limitations, and coordination of benefits. 16 (4) For the purposes of this subsection, "corrective lenses" shall 17 mean any lens, including contact lenses, glasses or spectacles, worn in 18 front of the eye to correct the sight of individuals medically diagnosed 19 with color vision deficiency. 20 § 2. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new 21 subsection (ss) to read as follows: 22 (ss) (1) A group contract issued, amended, or renewed pursuant to this 23 section offered in the large group market shall provide coverage for EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01665-01-9A. 354 2 1 corrective lenses used to correct the sight of individuals medically 2 diagnosed with color vision deficiency. 3 (2) An insured person shall be entitled to reimbursement of up to four 4 hundred dollars every thirty-six months for expenses related to the 5 purchase of up to one pair of corrective lenses. 6 (3) The insured person may choose corrective lenses exceeding the 7 amount of coverage required by this section and shall be liable for the 8 difference in cost. Reimbursement shall be provided according to the 9 respective principles and policies of the health insurance plan and may 10 include such policy provisions as deductibles, coinsurance, allowable 11 charge limitations, and coordination of benefits. 12 (4) For the purposes of this subsection, "corrective lenses" shall 13 mean any lens, including contact lenses, glasses or spectacles, worn in 14 front of the eye to correct the sight of individuals medically diagnosed 15 with color vision deficiency. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 17 have become a law.
