Prohibits insurance companies from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with a physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription which was initially written for five days or less.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10435
IN ASSEMBLY
May 27, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. MURRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting insurance
companies from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with a
physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription
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 33 to read as follows:
3 (33) Every policy which provides coverage for opioid drug
4 prescriptions shall not impose any fee, co-payment, co-insurance, deduc-
5 tible or other condition on any insured who requires a follow up
6 appointment to receive an additional opioid drug prescription or a
7 refill of an opioid drug prescription after an initial prescription for
8 such opioid drug prescription which was written for a period of five
9 days or less. Such prohibition on any fee, co-payment, co-insurance,
10 deductible or other condition is limited to one visit or one refill
11 after the initial appointment or prescription.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15588-01-6
