Bill Text: NY S05134 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurance policies to fully cover multi-marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which have been diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S05134 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05134-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5134

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance  law  and  the  social  services  law,  in
          relation  to requiring health insurance policies to fully cover multi-
          marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which  have  been
          diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass

          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 11-c to read as follows:
     3    (11-c)  (A) Every policy that provides coverage for hospital, surgical
     4  or medical care shall  offer  full  coverage  for  multi-marker  testing
     5  related  to ovarian cancer to patients which have been diagnosed with an
     6  ovarian adnexal mass.
     7    (B) Such additional coverage shall not be subject  to  annual  deduct-
     8  ibles and coinsurance but shall be borne solely by the insurer.
     9    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    10  adding a new paragraph 11-c to read as follows:
    11    (11-c) (A) Every insurer delivering a group or blanket policy or issu-
    12  ing  a  group or blanket policy for delivery in this state that provides
    13  coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care shall offer full  cover-
    14  age for multi-marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which
    15  have been diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.
    16    (B)  Such  additional  coverage shall not be subject to annual deduct-
    17  ibles and coinsurance but shall be borne solely by the insurer.
    18    § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    19  subsection (p-1) to read as follows:
    20    (p-1)  (1) A medical expense indemnity corporation, a hospital service
    21  corporation or a health service corporation that provides  coverage  for
    22  hospital,  surgical or medical care shall offer full coverage for multi-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07245-01-3
        S. 5134                             2

     1  marker testing related to ovarian cancer to  patients  which  have  been
     2  diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.
     3    (2)  Such  additional  coverage shall not be subject to annual deduct-
     4  ibles and coinsurance but shall be borne solely by the insurer.
     5    § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of  the  social  services  law  is
     6  amended by adding a new paragraph (kk) to read as follows:
     7    (kk)  multi-marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which
     8  have been diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.
     9    § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    10  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
    11  policies issued, reissued, renewed, modified or amended on or after such
    12  date.