Bill Text: NY A07088 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for health insurance coverage for nutritional care provided through licensed nutritionists.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to insurance [A07088 Detail]
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7088
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 23, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, MARKEY -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to health insurance
coverage for services by nutritionists
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (J) and (K) of paragraph 1 of subsection (b)
2 of section 4301 of the insurance law, as relettered by chapter 456 of
3 the laws of 1993, are amended and a new subparagraph (L) is added to
4 read as follows:
5 (J) necessary appliances, drugs, medicines and supplies, [and]
6 (K) bio-analytical or clinical laboratory examinations and reports
7 thereof reported to a physician, osteopath, dentist, optometrist, podia-
8 trist, chiropractor or physical therapist made by any privately operated
9 bioanalytical or clinical laboratory[.], AND
10 (L) NUTRITIONAL CARE PROVIDED THROUGH LICENSED NUTRITIONISTS.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06766-01-5
