STATE OF NEW YORK
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2420
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, MONTESANO -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to the coverage of
hospice services and palliative care for HEALTHY NY insurance policies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subsection (d) of section 4326 of the insurance law, as
2 amended by section 56 of part D of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (d) A qualifying group health insurance contract shall provide cover-
5 age for the essential health benefit package as required in section
6 2707(a) of the public health service act, 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-6(a). For
7 purposes of this subsection "essential health benefits package" shall
8 have the meaning set forth in section 1302(a) of the affordable care
9 act, 42 U.S.C. § 18022(a). In addition to such coverage, a qualifying
10 group health insurance contract shall also provide coverage for hospice
11 services as defined in section four thousand two of the public health
12 law and palliative care as defined in section twenty-eight hundred
13 seven-n of the public health law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04329-01-7
