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Assembly Bill A1718

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the "tick borne illness treatment and education act of 2025"

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2025-A1718 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A5174
2015-2016: A1277
2017-2018: A114
2019-2020: A178
2021-2022: A1183
2023-2024: A4598

2025-A1718 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the "tick borne illness treatment and education act"; requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens.

2025-A1718 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1718
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, BUTTENSCHON, LUPARDO, ANGELINO, McDONOUGH
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
 
 AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage of long term
   medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "tick borne
 illness treatment and education act of 2025".
   § 2. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 40 to read as follows:
   (40)  EVERY  INSURER ISSUING A POLICY OF ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE
 FOR DELIVERY IN THIS STATE SHALL PROVIDE  COVERAGE  FOR  ALL  COSTS  FOR
 TREATMENT  OF  LYME  DISEASE  (LYME  BORRELIOSIS)  AND  OTHER TICK BORNE
 RELATED PATHOGENS.  SUCH TREATMENT MAY  INCLUDE  INTRAVENOUS  ANTIBIOTIC
 THERAPY,  ORAL ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY, OR ANY OTHER TREATMENT, OR ANY COMBI-
 NATION OF TREATMENTS, PROVIDED SUCH TREATMENT IS RECOMMENDED BY A PHYSI-
 CIAN LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
   § 3. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 24 to read as follows:
   (24) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN
 THIS STATE WHICH PROVIDES HOSPITAL, SURGICAL OR MEDICAL  COVERAGE  SHALL
 PROVIDE  COVERAGE  FOR  ALL  COSTS  FOR  TREATMENT OF LYME DISEASE (LYME
 BORRELIOSIS) AND OTHER TICK BORNE RELATED PATHOGENS.  SUCH TREATMENT MAY
 INCLUDE INTRAVENOUS ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY, ORAL ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY, OR  ANY
 OTHER  TREATMENT, OR ANY COMBINATION OF TREATMENTS, PROVIDED SUCH TREAT-
 MENT IS RECOMMENDED BY A PHYSICIAN LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN  THE
 STATE OF NEW YORK.
   §  4.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
 subsection (ww) to read as follows:
   (WW) EVERY MEDICAL EXPENSE  INDEMNITY  CORPORATION,  HOSPITAL  SERVICE
 CORPORATION  AND  HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03697-01-5

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