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Assembly Bill A8387

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes second degree relatives in certain criteria for breast cancer screenings to be covered under insurance plans

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2023-A8387 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7785
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A1158, S4850

2023-A8387 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that individuals may receive breast cancer screenings under an insurance plan when such individual has a second degree relative with a prior history of breast cancer.

2023-A8387 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8387
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  including  second
   degree  relatives  in certain criteria for breast cancer screenings to
   be covered under insurance plans

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Item (i) of 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:
   (i)  upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may be
 provided by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons  having
 a  prior  history  of breast cancer or who have a first OR SECOND degree
 relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
   § 2. Item (i) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 11 of subsection (l) of
 section 3221 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 143 of the laws
 of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may  be
 provided  by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons having
 a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first  OR  SECOND  degree
 relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
   § 3. Subparagraph (A) of paragraph 1 of subsection (p) of section 4303
 of  the insurance law, as amended by chapter 414 of the laws of 2017, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (A) upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may  be
 provided  by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons having
 a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first  OR  SECOND  degree
 relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
   §  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.
                                                            LBD13430-01-3

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