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Assembly Bill A5980

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to health insurance coverage for breast ultrasound for cancer screening

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2017-A5980 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1108
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S3510

2017-A5980 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to health insurance coverage for breast ultrasound for cancer screening.

2017-A5980 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5980
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 21, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Insurance
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance  law, in relation to health insurance
   coverage for breast ultrasound for cancer screening
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  11  of  subsection  (i) of section 3216 of the
 insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph  (G)  to  read  as
 follows:
   (G)  SUCH  COVERAGE  SHALL ALSO BE PROVIDED FOR A BREAST ULTRASOUND IN
 ALL INSTANCES WHERE  A  MAMMOGRAPHY  SCREENING  IS  PROVIDED  FOR  UNDER
 SUBPARAGRAPH  (A) OF THIS PARAGRAPH IN THE EVENT THAT A PHYSICIAN DETER-
 MINES THAT A COVERED PERSON HAS EXTREMELY DENSE OR HETEROGENEOUSLY DENSE
 BREAST TISSUE.
   § 2. Paragraph 11 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of  the  insurance
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (G) to read as follows:
   (G)  SUCH  COVERAGE  SHALL ALSO BE PROVIDED FOR A BREAST ULTRASOUND IN
 ALL INSTANCES WHERE  A  MAMMOGRAPHY  SCREENING  IS  PROVIDED  FOR  UNDER
 SUBPARAGRAPH  (A) OF THIS PARAGRAPH IN THE EVENT THAT A PHYSICIAN DETER-
 MINES THAT A COVERED PERSON HAS EXTREMELY DENSE OR HETEROGENEOUSLY DENSE
 BREAST TISSUE.
   § 3. Subsection (p) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 6 to read as follows:
   (6) SUCH COVERAGE SHALL ALSO BE PROVIDED FOR A  BREAST  ULTRASOUND  IN
 ALL  INSTANCES WHERE A MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING IS PROVIDED FOR UNDER PARA-
 GRAPH ONE OF THIS SUBSECTION IN THE EVENT THAT  A  PHYSICIAN  DETERMINES
 THAT  A  COVERED  PERSON  HAS  EXTREMELY  DENSE OR HETEROGENEOUSLY DENSE
 BREAST TISSUE.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have  become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts issued,
 renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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