Senate Bill S3759

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  3759

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 31, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  eliminating  primary
  care services from certain insurance provisions

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph (A) and the opening paragraph of  subparagraph
(B)  of  paragraph 17 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance
law, as added by chapter 728 of the laws of 1993, are amended to read as
follows:
  (A) Every policy which  provides  medical,  major-medical  or  similar
comprehensive-type  coverage shall provide coverage for the provision of
preventive [and primary care] services.
  For the purposes of this  paragraph,  preventive  [and  primary  care]
services  means  the following services rendered to a dependent child of
an insured from the date of birth through  the  attainment  of  nineteen
years;
  S 2. Subparagraph (A) and the opening paragraph of subparagraph (B) of
paragraph  8  of subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law, as
amended by chapter 728 of the laws of  1993,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (A)  Every  insurer  issuing a group policy for delivery in this state
which provides  medical,  major-medical  or  similar  comprehensive-type
coverage  must  provide  coverage  for  the provision of preventive [and
primary care] services.
  In this paragraph, preventive [and primary care]  services  means  the
following  services rendered to a dependent child of an insured from the
date of birth through the attainment of nineteen years of age:
  S 3.  Paragraph  1  and  the  opening  paragraph  of  paragraph  2  of
subsection (j) of section 4303 of the insurance law, as amended by chap-
ter 728 of the laws of 1993, are amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (1)  A  health service corporation or medical expense indemnity corpo-
ration which provides medical, major-medical or  similar  comprehensive-
type coverage must provide coverage for the provision of preventive [and
primary care] services.
  For  purposes  of  this  subsection,  preventive  [and  primary  care]
services shall mean the following services rendered to a dependent child
of a subscriber from the date of birth through the attainment  of  nine-
teen years of age:
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.