Assembly Bill A10435

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10435

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. MURRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Insurance

AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting insurance
  companies from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with  a
  physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription

  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 33 to read as follows:
  (33)   EVERY   POLICY   WHICH   PROVIDES   COVERAGE  FOR  OPIOID  DRUG
PRESCRIPTIONS SHALL NOT IMPOSE ANY FEE, CO-PAYMENT, CO-INSURANCE, DEDUC-
TIBLE OR OTHER CONDITION  ON  ANY  INSURED  WHO  REQUIRES  A  FOLLOW  UP
APPOINTMENT  TO  RECEIVE  AN  ADDITIONAL  OPIOID  DRUG PRESCRIPTION OR A
REFILL OF AN OPIOID DRUG PRESCRIPTION AFTER AN INITIAL PRESCRIPTION  FOR
SUCH  OPIOID  DRUG  PRESCRIPTION  WHICH WAS WRITTEN FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE
DAYS OR LESS. SUCH PROHIBITION ON  ANY  FEE,  CO-PAYMENT,  CO-INSURANCE,
DEDUCTIBLE  OR  OTHER  CONDITION  IS  LIMITED TO ONE VISIT OR ONE REFILL
AFTER THE INITIAL APPOINTMENT OR PRESCRIPTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15588-01-6