Bill Text: NY S05502 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a written request from an insured for his or her health plan documents, including copies of most recent group or individual contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S05502 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05502-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5502
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 3, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 public health law, in relation
          to disclosure and access to health insurance plan documents
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  3  of  subsection (b) of section 3217-a of the
     2  insurance law, as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (3) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
     5  er  contracts  and,  upon  the  written request of an individual covered
     6  under a group contract which was the subject of  collective  bargaining,
     7  provide  a  copy  of  such contract within thirty days of the receipt of
     8  such request;
     9    § 2. Paragraph 3 of subsection (b) of section 4324  of  the  insurance
    10  law,  as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
    11  follows:
    12    (3) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
    13  er contracts and, upon the written  request  of  an  individual  covered
    14  under  a  group contract which was the subject of collective bargaining,
    15  provide a copy of such contract within thirty days  of  the  receipt  of
    16  such request;
    17    §  3.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 2 of section 4408 of the public
    18  health law, as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is  amended  to
    19  read as follows:
    20    (c) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
    21  er  contracts  and,  upon  the  written request of an individual covered
    22  under a group contract which was the subject of  collective  bargaining,
    23  provide  a  copy  of  such contract within thirty days of the receipt of
    24  such request;
    25    § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07985-02-9
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