Assembly Bill A6729

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes a health care disparities data collection system

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  • 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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2019-A6729 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4937
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§210 & 4323, Ins L; amd §206, add Art 2 Title 3-A §§245 - 249, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4771, S2626
2023-2024: A2025

2019-A6729 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a health care disparities data collection system.

2019-A6729 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6729
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the public health law, in relation
   to establishing a health care disparities data collection system
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subsections  (d)  and (e) of section 210 of the insurance
 law, subsection (d) as amended by chapter 455 of the laws  of  2018  and
 subsection  (e) as added by chapter 579 of the laws of 1998, are amended
 to read as follows:
   (d) BEGINNING NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER FIRST OF THE YEAR FOLLOWING  THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS ESTABLISHING THE HEALTH CARE
 DISPARITIES DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM, PURSUANT TO TITLE THREE-A OF ARTICLE
 TWO  OF  THE  PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, AND ON SEPTEMBER FIRST OF THE PRECEDING
 YEAR  IF  PRACTICABLE,  IN  ADDITION  TO  THE  INFORMATION  REQUIRED  IN
 SUBSECTIONS  (A),  (B) AND (C) OF THIS SECTION, THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL
 INCLUDE IN SUCH GUIDE AND SELECTION  OF  THE  DATA  APPLICABLE  TO  EACH
 INSURER  OR  ENTITY  FROM  THE  HEALTH  CARE DISPARITIES DATA COLLECTION
 SYSTEM. SUCH DATA SHALL INCLUDE DATA COLLECTED OR COMPILED IN REGARD  TO
 HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND HEALTH OUTCOMES PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO THOUSAND
 NINE  HUNDRED  NINETY-FIVE-C OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW OR OTHER DATA THAT
 IS GENERALLY RECOGNIZED AS AUTHORITATIVE AND RELIABLE.
   (E) Health insurers and entities certified pursuant to article  forty-
 four  of the public health law shall provide annually to the superinten-
 dent and the commissioner of health,  and  the  commissioner  of  health
 shall  provide  to  the superintendent, all of the information necessary
 for the superintendent to produce the annual consumer  guide,  including
 the  mental  health  and  substance use disorder parity report, PROVIDED
 THAT THIS REQUIREMENT SHALL NOT APPLY TO  INFORMATION  PROVIDED  FOR  IN
 SUBSECTION  (D)  OF THIS SECTION IF THE SUPERINTENDENT ALREADY POSSESSES
 SUCH INFORMATION AS PART OF THE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM PROVIDED  FOR  IN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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