Bill Text: NY S03132 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that medicaid and health insurance plans provide coverage for costs of prescription smoking cessation treatment that is ordered by a physician; establishes a coverage limit of $400 for each covered individual.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S03132 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03132-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3132
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 30, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- 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 coverage for treatment
         of smoking cessation
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a
    2  new subsection (l-1) to read as follows:
    3    (L-1) A HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATION OR A HEALTH  SERVICE  CORPORATION
    4  WHICH  PROVIDES  GROUP,  GROUP REMITTANCE OR SCHOOL BLANKET COVERAGE FOR
    5  INPATIENT HOSPITAL CARE SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR COSTS OF PRESCRIPTION
    6  SMOKING CESSATION TREATMENT THAT IS ORDERED BY A PHYSICIAN. SUCH  TREAT-
    7  MENT  MAY  BE  LIMITED TO FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS PER YEAR FOR EACH COVERED
    8  INDIVIDUAL. THIS PROVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO A CONTRACT ISSUED PURSUANT
    9  TO SECTION FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE WHICH COVERS
   10  PERSONS EMPLOYED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE  OR  THE  BENEFIT  STRUCTURE  OF
   11  WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AFFECTING PERSONS WHO ARE
   12  EMPLOYED  IN MORE THAN ONE STATE. SUCH COVERAGE MAY BE SUBJECT TO ANNUAL
   13  DEDUCTIBLES AND CO-INSURANCE AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE  SUPER-
   14  INTENDENT AND ARE CONSISTENT WITH THOSE IMPOSED ON OTHER BENEFITS WITHIN
   15  A  GIVEN  POLICY. SUCH COVERAGE SHALL NOT REPLACE, RESTRICT OR ELIMINATE
   16  EXISTING COVERAGE PROVIDED BY THE POLICY.
   17    S 2. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is amended by
   18  adding a new paragraph 30 to read as follows:
   19    (30) EVERY POLICY SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE  FOR  COSTS  OF  PRESCRIPTION
   20  SMOKING  CESSATION TREATMENT THAT IS ORDERED BY A PHYSICIAN. SUCH COVER-
   21  AGE MAY BE LIMITED TO FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS PER  YEAR  FOR  EACH  COVERED
   22  INDIVIDUAL.
   23    S 3. Subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
   24  adding a new paragraph 19 to read as follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01001-01-3
       S. 3132                             2
    1    (19) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN
    2  THIS  STATE  WHICH PROVIDES HOSPITAL, SURGICAL OR MEDICAL COVERAGE SHALL
    3  PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR COSTS OF PRESCRIPTION SMOKING  CESSATION  TREATMENT
    4  THAT  IS  ORDERED  BY  A PHYSICIAN. SUCH COVERAGE MAY BE LIMITED TO FOUR
    5  HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH COVERED INDIVIDUAL.
    6    S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    7  it shall have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts
    8  issued,  renewed,  modified,  altered  or amended on or after such date;
    9  except that  any  rules  and  regulations  necessary  to  implement  the
   10  provisions  of  this  act are authorized and directed to be promulgated,
   11  amended or repealed on or before such effective date.