Assembly Bill A9150

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires certain insurance policies and Medicaid to allow patients a one hundred twenty-day window for additional screening for breast cancer when the provider deems such screening is necessary

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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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2021-A9150 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8156
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L; amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1696, S2465

2021-A9150 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain insurance policies and Medicaid to allow patients a one hundred twenty-day window for additional screening for breast cancer, which may include an additional mammogram, when the provider deems such screening is necessary.

2021-A9150 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9150
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Insurance
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance  law  and the social services law, in
   relation to requiring certain insurance policies and Medicaid to allow
   patients a one hundred twenty-day window for additional  breast  exams
   when the provider deems another breast exam is needed

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (A) of  paragraph  11  of  subsection  (i)  of
 section 3216 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 414 of the laws
 of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (A)  Every  policy  that  provides  coverage for hospital, surgical or
 medical care  shall  provide  the  following  coverage  for  mammography
 screening for occult breast cancer:
   (i)  [upon  the  recommendation  of  a  physician]  WHERE  A PROVIDER,
 LICENSED TO ISSUE PRESCRIPTIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION  SIXTY-FIVE  HUNDRED
 TWENTY-TWO  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  ASSESSED THE RISK AND THEN MAKES A
 RECOMMENDATION FOR AN ADDITIONAL SCREENING INCLUDING MAMMOGRAM, a mammo-
 gram, which may be provided by breast  tomosynthesis,  at  any  age  for
 covered  persons having a prior history of breast cancer OR DENSE BREAST
 or who have a first degree relative  with  a  prior  history  of  breast
 cancer OR DENSE BREAST;
   (ii)  a  single  baseline  mammogram,  which may be provided by breast
 tomosynthesis, for covered persons aged thirty-five through thirty-nine,
 inclusive; [and]
   (iii) an annual mammogram, which may be provided by breast tomosynthe-
 sis, for covered persons aged forty and older; AND
   (IV)  AN  ADDITIONAL  SCREENING  INCLUDING  MAMMOGRAM,  WHICH  MAY  BE
 PROVIDED  BY  BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS, FOR COVERED PERSONS WHOSE MAMMOGRAM,
 WHICH OCCURRED IN THE PREVIOUS ONE HUNDRED TWENTY  DAYS,  SHOWED  ABNOR-
 MALITIES  DUE TO DENSE BREAST OR THE PROVIDER DEEMS ANOTHER MAMMOGRAM IS
 NEEDED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13334-05-2
 A. 9150                             2
              

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