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S00649 Summary:

BILL NO	S00649
SAME AS	SAME AS A01681
SPONSOR	STAVISKY
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add S3224-d, Ins L
Relates to actions by health care providers against patients; provides that it shall be an affirmative defense to an action by a health care provider against a patient for recovery of payment for an outstanding bill that such health care provider failed to submit such insurance claim to the patient's insurer in a timely manner.

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S00649 Actions:

BILL NO	S00649
01/09/2013	REFERRED TO INSURANCE
01/08/2014	REFERRED TO INSURANCE

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S00649 Floor Votes:

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S00649 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           649
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 actions by health care
          providers against patients
 

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3224-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3224-d.  Actions  by  health  care  providers  related to insurance
     4  claims. In any action brought  by  a  health  care  provider  against  a
     5  patient  to  recover  payment  for  an  outstanding  bill,  for services
     6  rendered by such health  care  provider,  it  shall  be  an  affirmative
     7  defense  to  such  action that the health care provider failed to submit
     8  the insurance claim to the patient's insurer in a timely manner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have  become a law, and shall apply to civil actions brought on or after

    11  such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03569-01-3

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