Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L; amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Requires health insurance policies to fully cover multi-marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which have been diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6186
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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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 health insurance policies to fully cover multi-
marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which have been
diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph 11-c to read as follows:
3 (11-c) (A) Every policy that provides coverage for hospital, surgical
4 or medical care shall offer full coverage for multi-marker testing
5 related to ovarian cancer to patients which have been diagnosed with an
6 ovarian adnexal mass.
7 (B) Such additional coverage shall not be subject to annual deduct-
8 ibles and coinsurance but shall be borne solely by the insurer.
9 § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
10 adding a new paragraph 11-c to read as follows:
11 (11-c) (A) Every insurer delivering a group or blanket policy or issu-
12 ing a group or blanket policy for delivery in this state that provides
13 coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care shall offer full cover-
14 age for multi-marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which
15 have been diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.
16 (B) Such additional coverage shall not be subject to annual deduct-
17 ibles and coinsurance but shall be borne solely by the insurer.
18 § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
19 subsection (p-1) to read as follows:
20 (p-1) (1) A medical expense indemnity corporation, a hospital service
21 corporation or a health service corporation that provides coverage for
22 hospital, surgical or medical care shall offer full coverage for multi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which have been
2 diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.
3 (2) Such additional coverage shall not be subject to annual deduct-
4 ibles and coinsurance but shall be borne solely by the insurer.
5 § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law is
6 amended by adding a new paragraph (kk) to read as follows:
7 (kk) multi-marker testing related to ovarian cancer to patients which
8 have been diagnosed with an ovarian adnexal mass.
9 § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
10 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to
11 policies issued, reissued, renewed, modified or amended on or after such
12 date.
