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S02923 Summary:

BILL NO	S02923
SAME AS	SAME AS A04834
SPONSOR	STAVISKY
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §3224-d, Ins L
Relates to actions by health care providers against patients; provides that it shall be an affirmative defense to an action by a health care provider against a patient for recovery of payment for an outstanding bill that such health care provider failed to submit such insurance claim to the patient's insurer in a timely manner.

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S02923 Actions:

BILL NO	S02923
01/30/2019	REFERRED TO INSURANCE
06/03/2019	COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
06/03/2019	ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1133
06/03/2019	PASSED SENATE
06/03/2019	DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/03/2019	referred to insurance
01/08/2020	died in assembly
01/08/2020	returned to senate
01/08/2020	REFERRED TO INSURANCE

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S02923 Committee Votes:

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S02923 Floor Votes:

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S02923 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2923
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 30, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 actions by health care
          providers against patients
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3224-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3224-d.  Actions  by  health  care  providers  related to insurance
     4  claims. In any action brought  by  a  health  care  provider  against  a
     5  patient  to  recover  payment  for  an  outstanding  bill,  for services
     6  rendered by such health  care  provider,  it  shall  be  an  affirmative
     7  defense  to  such  action that the health care provider failed to submit
     8  the insurance claim to the patient's insurer in a timely manner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have  become a law, and shall apply to civil actions brought on or after
    11  such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04114-01-9

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