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S00563 Summary:

BILL NO	S00563
SAME AS	No same as
SPONSOR	MARCELLINO
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd S3221, Ins L
Requires health insurance carriers to provide insurance coverage for proven systems of smoking cessation treatments where such treatments are approved by the primary care physician of the covered person.

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S00563 Actions:

BILL NO	S00563
01/09/2009	REFERRED TO INSURANCE
01/06/2010	REFERRED TO INSURANCE

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S00563 Floor Votes:

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S00563 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           563
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 9, 2009
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- 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  providing  health
          insurance coverage for smoking cessation treatments
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 3221 of the insurance law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subsection (r) to read as follows:
     3    (r)(1)  Every insurer delivering or issuing for delivery in this state
     4  a group or blanket policy which provides hospital, surgical  or  medical
     5  expense  coverage  must  provide  coverage for proven systems of smoking
     6  cessation treatments.
     7    (2) A system of smoking cessation approved in writing by  the  covered
     8  person's primary physician shall be deemed a proven system.
     9    (3)  Such coverage shall be made available at the inception of all new
    10  policies and, with respect to all other  policies,  at  the  anniversary
    11  date   of  the  policy  next  succeeding  the  effective  date  of  this

    12  subsection.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04591-01-9

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