Provides that individuals may receive breast cancer screenings under an insurance plan when such individual has a second degree relative with a prior history of breast cancer.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7785
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
December 6, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to including second
degree relatives in certain criteria for breast cancer screenings to
be covered under insurance plans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Item (i) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 11 of subsection
2 (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 414 of
3 the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may be
5 provided by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons having
6 a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first or second degree
7 relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
8 § 2. Item (i) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 11 of subsection (l) of
9 section 3221 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 143 of the laws
10 of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
11 (i) upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may be
12 provided by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons having
13 a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first or second degree
14 relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
15 § 3. Subparagraph (A) of paragraph 1 of subsection (p) of section 4303
16 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 414 of the laws of 2017, is
17 amended to read as follows:
18 (A) upon the recommendation of a physician, a mammogram, which may be
19 provided by breast tomosynthesis, at any age for covered persons having
20 a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first or second degree
21 relative with a prior history of breast cancer;
22 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
23 have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts issued,
24 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.
LBD13430-01-3
