Requires health insurers covering surgery to cover all expenses incurred in connection with autologous blood transfusions (self-donated); applies to individual and group policies and to medical expense indemnity and hospital or health service corporations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5672
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN, FINCH, HARRIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring insurance
policies covering surgery to cover all expenses incurred in connection
with autologous blood transfusions
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 34 to read as follows:
3 (34) Every policy which provides surgical coverage shall provide
4 coverage for all expenses incurred in connection with autologous blood
5 transfusions used for or intended to be used for surgery, including the
6 collection of blood prior to surgery and the transfusion of such blood
7 into the insured, whether done before, during, or after surgery.
8 § 2. Subsection (1) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
9 adding a new paragraph 20 to read as follows:
10 (20) Every group or blanket policy delivered or issued for delivery in
11 this state which provides surgical coverage shall provide coverage for
12 all expenses incurred in connection with autologous blood transfusions
13 used for or intended to be used for surgery, including the collection of
14 blood prior to surgery and the transfusion of such blood into the
15 insured, whether done before, during, or after surgery.
16 § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
17 subsection (oo) to read as follows:
18 (oo) A medical expense indemnity corporation, a hospital service
19 corporation, or a health service corporation which provides surgical
20 coverage shall provide coverage for all expenses incurred in connection
21 with autologous blood transfusions used for or intended to be used for
22 surgery, including the collection of blood prior to surgery and the
23 transfusion of such blood into the insured, whether done before, during,
24 or after surgery.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
2 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all
3 policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on
4 or after such date.
