Bill Text: NY S08744 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits approved organizations providing coverage under the child health insurance plan from discriminating against health care providers which do not participate in the organization's health care network.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08744 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08744-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8744
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2018
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to prohibiting
          approved organizations in the child health insurance plan from  limit-
          ing the participation of certain health care providers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2511 of the public health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d)  No  approved  organization shall prohibit or in any way limit the
     4  provision of covered health care services by a health care  provider  on
     5  the  grounds  that  such provider chooses not to participate in a health
     6  care network maintained by such approved organization to  serve  commer-
     7  cial insureds, enrollees or subscribers.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08692-01-7