Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 21, 2018 |
approval memo.13 signed chap.455 |
Dec 11, 2018 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 20, 2018 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.2106 substituted for s1156c |
Jun 20, 2018 |
substituted by a3694c ordered to third reading cal.2106 committee discharged and committed to rules |
Jun 01, 2018 |
print number 1156c |
Jun 01, 2018 |
amend and recommit to insurance |
Jan 29, 2018 |
print number 1156b |
Jan 29, 2018 |
amend and recommit to insurance |
Jan 03, 2018 |
referred to insurance |
Jun 06, 2017 |
print number 1156a |
Jun 06, 2017 |
amend (t) and recommit to insurance |
Jan 06, 2017 |
referred to insurance |
Senate Bill S1156C
Signed By Governor2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) 62nd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status Via A3694 - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
(R) Senate District
2017-S1156 - Details
2017-S1156 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1156 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to establishing the mental health and substance abuse parity report act PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : The purpose of the bill is to require insurers and health plans to submit certain data to the Department of Financial Services and the Commissioner of Health, as a way of measuring compliance with federal and state mental health and substance abuse parity laws. The data will be used by the Department of Financial Services to prepare an annual Mental Health Parity report as part of the annual Consumer Guide. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Amends Section 210 of the Insurance Law to require the submission of certain data by insurers and health plans. JUSTIFICATION : Ensuring New Yorkers have access to care and treatment for mental illness and substance abuse disorders is critical and is the reason New York enacted one of the strongest mental health parity laws in the
2017-S1156 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1156 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 establishing the mental health and substance abuse parity report act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "mental health and substance abuse parity report act". § 2. Subsection (a) of section 210 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 579 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: (a) The superintendent shall annually publish on or before September first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and annually thereafter, a consumer guide to insurers providing managed care products, individual accident and health insurance or group or blanket accident and health insurance and entities licensed pursuant to article forty-four of the public health law providing comprehensive health service plans which includes, in detail, a ranking from best to worst based upon each company's claim processing or medical payments record during the preceding calendar year using criteria available to the department, adjusted for volume of coverage provided. Such ranking shall also take into consideration the corresponding total number or percentage of claims denied which were reversed or compromised after intervention by the department and the department of health, consumer complaints to the department and the department of health, violations of section three thousand two hundred twenty-four-a of this chapter and other pertinent data which would permit the department to objectively determine a company's performance. The department in publishing such consumer guide shall publish one state-wide guide or no more than five regional guides so as to facili- tate comparisons among individual insurers and entities within a service market area. Such rankings shall be printed in a format which ranks all health insurers and all entities certified pursuant to article forty- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
(R) Senate District
2017-S1156A - Details
2017-S1156A - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1156A TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : s.k 1 The purpose of the bill is to require insurers and health plans to submit certain data to the Department of Financial Services and the Commissioner of Health, as a way of measuring compliance with federal and state mental health and substance abuse parity laws. The data will be used by the Department of Financial Services to prepare an annual Mental Health Parity report as part of the annual Consumer Guide. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Amends Section 210 of the Insurance Law to require the submission of certain data by insurers and health plans. JUSTIFICATION : Ensuring New Yorkers have access to care and treatment for mental illness and substance abuse disorders is critical and is the reason New York enacted one of the strongest mental health parity laws in the nation (Timothy's Law) in 2006. New York reaffirmed its commitment to mental health parity when Timothy's Law was made permanent in 2009.
2017-S1156A - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1156--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "mental health and substance use disorder parity report act". § 2. Subsection (a) of section 210 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 579 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: (a) The superintendent shall annually publish on or before September first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and annually thereafter, a consumer guide to insurers providing managed care products, individual accident and health insurance or group or blanket accident and health insurance and entities licensed pursuant to article forty-four of the public health law providing comprehensive health service plans which includes, in detail, a ranking from best to worst based upon each company's claim processing or medical payments record during the preceding calendar year using criteria available to the department, adjusted for volume of coverage provided. Such ranking shall also take into consideration the corresponding total number or percentage of claims denied which were reversed or compromised after intervention by the department and the department of health, consumer complaints to the department and the department of health, violations of section three thousand two hundred twenty-four-a of this chapter and other pertinent data which would permit the department to objectively determine a company's performance. The department in publishing such consumer guide shall publish one state-wide guide or no more than five regional guides so as to facili- tate comparisons among individual insurers and entities within a service EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
(R) Senate District
(D) Senate District
(R, C, IP) 54th Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2017-S1156B - Details
2017-S1156B - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1156B SPONSOR: ORTT TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of the bill is to require insurers and health plans to submit certain data to the Department of Financial Services and the Commissioner of Health, as a way of measuring compliance with federal and state mental health and substance abuse parity laws. The data will be used by the Department of Financial Services to prepare an annual Mental Health Parity report as part of the annual Consumer Guide. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Amends Section 210 of the Insurance Law to require the submission of certain data by insurers and health plans.
2017-S1156B - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1156--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "mental health and substance use disorder parity report act". § 2. Subsection (a) of section 210 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 579 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: (a) The superintendent shall annually publish on or before September first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and annually thereafter, a consumer guide to insurers providing managed care products, individual accident and health insurance or group or blanket accident and health insurance and entities licensed pursuant to article forty-four of the public health law providing comprehensive health service plans which includes, in detail, a ranking from best to worst based upon each company's claim processing or medical payments record during the preceding calendar year using criteria available to the department, adjusted for volume of coverage provided. Such ranking shall also take into consideration the corresponding total number or percentage of claims denied which were reversed or compromised after intervention by the department and the department of health, consumer complaints to the department and the department of health, violations of section three thousand two hundred twenty-four-a of this chapter and other pertinent data which would permit the department to objectively determine a company's performance. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R) Senate District
(D) Senate District
2017-S1156C (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-S1156C (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1156C SPONSOR: ORTT TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of the bill is to require insurers and health plans to submit certain data to the Department of Financial Services and the Commissioner of Health, as a way of measuring compliance with federal and state mental health and substance abuse parity laws. The data will be used by the Department of Financial Services to prepare an annual Mental Health Parity report as part of the annual Consumer Guide. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Amends Section 210 of the Insurance Law to require the submission of certain data by insurers and health plans.
2017-S1156C (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1156--C 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, BOYLE, HAMILTON, HELMING, MARCHIONE, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "mental health and substance use disorder parity report act". § 2. Section 210 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new subsection (c-1) to read as follows: (C-1) BEGINNING SEPTEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL INCLUDE IN SUCH GUIDE A MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER PARITY REPORT DETAILING EACH COMPANY'S COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL AND STATE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISOR- DER PARITY LAWS BASED ON EACH COMPANY'S RECORD DURING THE PRECEDING CALENDAR YEAR. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL INCLUDE IN SUCH REPORT, AND EACH COMPANY SHALL PROVIDE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT THE INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR SUCH GUIDE IN A TIMELY FASHION, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: (1) RATES OF UTILIZATION REVIEW FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER CLAIMS AS COMPARED TO MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CLAIMS, INCLUDING RATES OF APPROVAL AND DENIAL, CATEGORIZED BY BENEFITS PROVIDED UNDER THE FOLLOWING CLASSIFICATIONS: INPATIENT IN-NETWORK, INPATIENT OUT-OF-NET- WORK, OUTPATIENT IN-NETWORK, OUTPATIENT OUT-OF-NETWORK, EMERGENCY CARE, AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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