Bill Text: NY A05980 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to health insurance coverage for breast ultrasound for cancer screening.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to insurance [A05980 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05980-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5980
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 21, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Insurance
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance  law, in relation to health insurance
          coverage for breast ultrasound for cancer screening
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  11  of  subsection  (i) of section 3216 of the
     2  insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph  (G)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (G)  Such  coverage  shall also be provided for a breast ultrasound in
     5  all instances where  a  mammography  screening  is  provided  for  under
     6  subparagraph  (A) of this paragraph in the event that a physician deter-
     7  mines that a covered person has extremely dense or heterogeneously dense
     8  breast tissue.
     9    § 2. Paragraph 11 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of  the  insurance
    10  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (G) to read as follows:
    11    (G)  Such  coverage  shall also be provided for a breast ultrasound in
    12  all instances where  a  mammography  screening  is  provided  for  under
    13  subparagraph  (A) of this paragraph in the event that a physician deter-
    14  mines that a covered person has extremely dense or heterogeneously dense
    15  breast tissue.
    16    § 3. Subsection (p) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
    17  adding a new paragraph 6 to read as follows:
    18    (6) Such coverage shall also be provided for a  breast  ultrasound  in
    19  all  instances where a mammography screening is provided for under para-
    20  graph one of this subsection in the event that  a  physician  determines
    21  that  a  covered  person  has  extremely  dense or heterogeneously dense
    22  breast tissue.
    23    § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    24  have  become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts issued,
    25  renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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