Assembly Bill A10231

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that insurance policies that cover annual physicals and well care visits shall allow one visit per calendar year

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A10231 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3616
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A397, S5850

2009-A10231 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that insurance policies that cover annual physicals and well care visits shall allow one visit per calendar year.

2009-A10231 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10231 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10231

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 11, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Insurance

AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to annual  physicals  and
  well care visits

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 3216  of  the  insurance  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph 27 to read as follows:
  (27)  EVERY INDIVIDUAL POLICY WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR MEDICAL OR
SIMILAR COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE THAT INCLUDES COVERAGE FOR  A  PHYS-
ICAL  OR  WELL  CARE  VISIT  ONCE IN EVERY THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS
SHALL BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT SUCH PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE  VISIT  CAN
BE  HAD  ONCE EVERY CALENDAR YEAR, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT A PERIOD
OF THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS HAS PASSED SINCE THE PREVIOUS  PHYSICAL
OR WELL CARE VISIT.
  S 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
adding a new paragraph 16 to read as follows:
  (16)  EVERY  GROUP  OR  BLANKET  POLICY  WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR
MEDICAL OR SIMILAR COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE  THAT  INCLUDES  COVERAGE
FOR A PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE VISIT ONCE IN EVERY THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE
DAYS  SHALL BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT SUCH PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE VISIT
CAN BE HAD ONCE EVERY CALENDAR YEAR, REGARDLESS  OF  WHETHER  OR  NOT  A
PERIOD  OF  THREE  HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS HAS PASSED SINCE THE PREVIOUS
PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE VISIT.
  S 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
subsection (gg) to read as follows:
  (GG)  EVERY CONTRACT ISSUED BY A CORPORATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS
OF THIS ARTICLE WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR MEDICAL OR SIMILAR COMPRE-
HENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE THAT INCLUDES COVERAGE FOR A PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE
VISIT ONCE IN EVERY THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS SHALL  BE  INTERPRETED
TO  MEAN  THAT  SUCH  PHYSICAL  OR WELL CARE VISIT CAN BE HAD ONCE EVERY
CALENDAR YEAR, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT A PERIOD  OF  THREE  HUNDRED
SIXTY-FIVE  DAYS  HAS  PASSED  SINCE  THE PREVIOUS PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE
VISIT.
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have  become  a  law  and  shall apply to policies and contracts issued,
renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
              

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