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Senate Bill S6818

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes individuals treated with opioid partial agonist treatment medication as being in an opioid treatment program for the purposes of certain insurance coverage and co-payments

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2023-S6818 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2023-S6818 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes individuals treated with opioid partial agonist treatment medication as being in an opioid treatment program for the purposes of certain insurance coverage and co-payments.

2023-S6818 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6818 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6818
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 including individuals
   treated with opioid partial agonist treatment medication as  being  in
   an  opioid  treatment  program  for  the purposes of certain insurance
   coverage and co-payments
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  31-b  of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the
 insurance law, as added by chapter 734 of the laws of 2022,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (31-b)  Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
 treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
 treatment on any insured for such treatment. For the  purposes  of  this
 section  "opioid  treatment  program"  means  a  program or practitioner
 engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with  an  opioid  agonist  OR
 OPIOID PARTIAL AGONIST treatment medication.
   §  2. Paragraph 7-b of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance
 law, as added by chapter 734 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   (7-b)  Every  policy that provides coverage for treatment at an opioid
 treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
 treatment on any insured for such treatment. For the  purposes  of  this
 section  "opioid  treatment  program"  means  a  program or practitioner
 engaged in opioid treatment of individuals with  an  opioid  agonist  OR
 OPIOID PARTIAL AGONIST treatment medication.
   §  3.  Subsection (l-2) of section 4303 of the insurance law, as added
 by chapter 734 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (l-2) Every policy that provides coverage for treatment at  an  opioid
 treatment program shall not impose a co-payment fee during the course of
 treatment  on  any  insured for such treatment. For the purposes of this

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10907-01-3

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