Senate Bill S9120

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to insurance coverage for FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee


  • 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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2017-S9120 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3221, 4303 & 3216, Ins L

2017-S9120 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to insurance coverage for FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products and contraceptive education, counseling and follow up services.

2017-S9120 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S9120 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9120
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 20, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  health
   insurance  policies to include coverage of all FDA-approved contracep-
   tive drugs, devices, and products, contraceptive education  and  coun-
   seling, and related follow up services and prohibiting a health insur-
   ance  policy  from  imposing  any  cost-sharing  requirements or other
   restrictions or delays with respect to this coverage
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  16  of  subsection  (l) of section 3221 of the
 insurance law, as added by chapter 554 of the laws of 2002,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (16)  (A)  Every  group  or blanket policy which provides coverage for
 prescription drugs shall [include coverage for the cost of contraceptive
 drugs or devices approved by the federal food and drug administration or
 generic equivalents approved as substitutes by such food and drug admin-
 istration under the prescription  of  a  health  care  provider  legally
 authorized  to  prescribe  under  title  eight of the education law. The
 coverage required by this section shall  be  included  in  policies  and
 certificates only through the addition of a rider.
   (A)] PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SERVICES AND CONTRACEP-
 TIVE METHODS:
   (1)  ALL FDA-APPROVED CONTRACEPTIVE DRUGS, DEVICES, AND OTHER PRODUCTS
 PROVIDED  FOR  IN  COMPREHENSIVE  GUIDELINES  SUPPORTED  BY  THE  HEALTH
 RESOURCES  AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (HRSA), AS PRESCRIBED BY A PHYSI-
 CIAN OR OTHER  LICENSED  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER  LEGALLY  AUTHORIZED  TO
 PRESCRIBE UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW.  THE FOLLOWING APPLIES
 TO THIS COVERAGE:
   (A)  WHERE  THE  FDA  HAS  APPROVED ONE OR MORE FORMS OF CONTRACEPTION
 WITHIN A METHOD OF CONTRACEPTION IDENTIFIED BY THE FDA, A GROUP OR BLAN-
 KET POLICY IS NOT REQUIRED TO INCLUDE ALL SUCH FORMS IN  ITS  FORMULARY,
 SO LONG AS AT LEAST ONE IS INCLUDED AND COVERED WITHOUT COST-SHARING;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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