Assembly Bill A8518

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires insurance coverage of outpatient problem gambling services

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    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A8518 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8352
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L

2025-A8518 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires insurance companies to cover outpatient problem gambling services.

2025-A8518 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8518
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  requiring  insurance
   coverage of outpatient problem gambling services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (A) of  paragraph  31  of  subsection  (i)  of
 section  3216 of the insurance law, as amended by section 6 of subpart A
 of part BB of chapter 57 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (A)  Every  policy  that  provides  medical,  major medical or similar
 comprehensive-type coverage shall provide outpatient  coverage  for  the
 diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorder, including detoxifica-
 tion [and], rehabilitation, AND PROBLEM GAMBLING services. Such coverage
 shall  not  apply  financial  requirements  or  treatment limitations to
 outpatient substance use disorder benefits  that  are  more  restrictive
 than  the  predominant  financial requirements and treatment limitations
 applied to substantially all medical and surgical  benefits  covered  by
 the policy.
   § 2. Subparagraph (A) of paragraph 7 of subsection (l) of section 3221
 of  the  insurance law, as amended by section 16 of subpart A of part BB
 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (A) Every policy that  provides  medical,  major  medical  or  similar
 comprehensive-type  coverage  shall  provide outpatient coverage for the
 diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorder, including detoxifica-
 tion [and], rehabilitation, AND PROBLEM GAMBLING services. Such coverage
 shall not apply  financial  requirements  or  treatment  limitations  to
 outpatient  substance  use  disorder  benefits that are more restrictive
 than the predominant financial requirements  and  treatment  limitations
 applied  to  substantially  all medical and surgical benefits covered by
 the policy.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11088-01-5

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