STATE OF NEW YORK
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5064
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 29, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
to requiring health insurers to accept third party payments for cover-
age
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 4406-c of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. With regard to a subscriber contract offered through the individual
4 market, a health maintenance organization shall not by contract or in
5 any other manner refuse to accept premium or any required cost sharing
6 payments from third parties.
7 § 2. Section 3217-b of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
8 subsection (k) to read as follows:
9 (k) With regard to an insurance policy offered through the individual
10 market, an insurer shall not by contract or in any other manner refuse
11 to accept premium or any required cost sharing payments from third
12 parties.
13 § 3. Section 4325 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
14 subsection (l) to read as follows:
15 (l) With regard to an insurance contract offered through the individ-
16 ual market, a corporation organized under this article shall not by
17 contract or in any other manner refuse to accept premium or any required
18 cost sharing payments from third parties.
19 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
20 policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on
21 or after January 1, 2016.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10772-01-5
