STATE OF NEW YORK
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3510
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 11, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. PANEPINTO -- 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 health insurance
coverage for follow-up ultrasound for breast cancer screening
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 11 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the
2 insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as
3 follows:
4 (F) Such coverage shall also be provided, upon the recommendation of a
5 physician, for a follow-up ultrasound, in the event that a physician
6 determines that a covered person has extremely dense or heterogeneously
7 dense breast tissue.
8 § 2. Paragraph 11 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance
9 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (F) to read as follows:
10 (F) Such coverage shall also be provided, upon the recommendation of a
11 physician, for a follow-up ultrasound, in the event that a physician
12 determines that a covered person has extremely dense or heterogeneously
13 dense breast tissue.
14 § 3. Subsection (p) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
15 adding a new paragraph 5 to read as follows:
16 (5) Such coverage shall also be provided, upon the recommendation of a
17 physician, for a follow-up ultrasound, in the event that a physician
18 determines that a covered person has extremely dense or heterogeneously
19 dense breast tissue.
20 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts issued,
22 renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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