STATE OF NEW YORK
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7253
IN SENATE
January 14, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 requiring the coverage
of mental health well care visits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 29 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the
2 insurance law, as added by chapter 273 of the laws of 2012, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (29) Every individual policy which provides medical, major medical or
5 similar comprehensive-type coverage that includes coverage for a phys-
6 ical, or mental health or well care visit once in every three hundred
7 sixty-five days shall be interpreted to mean that such physical, mental
8 health or well care visit can be had once every calendar year, regard-
9 less of whether or not a period of three hundred sixty-five days has
10 passed since the previous physical, mental health or well care visit.
11 § 2. Paragraph 18 of subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance
12 law, as added by chapter 273 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
13 follows:
14 (18) Every group or blanket policy which provides medical, major
15 medical or similar comprehensive-type coverage that includes coverage
16 for a physical, mental health or well care visit once in every three
17 hundred sixty-five days shall be interpreted to mean that such physical,
18 mental health or well care visit can be had once every calendar year,
19 regardless of whether or not a period of three hundred sixty-five days
20 has passed since the previous physical, mental health or well care
21 visit.
22 § 3. Subsection (ii) of section 4303 of the insurance law, as added by
23 chapter 273 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
24 (ii) Every contract issued by a corporation subject to the provisions
25 of this article which provides medical, major medical or similar compre-
26 hensive-type coverage that includes coverage for a physical, mental
27 health or well care visit once in every three hundred sixty-five days
28 shall be interpreted to mean that such physical, mental health or well
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 care visit can be had once every calendar year, regardless of whether or
2 not a period of three hundred sixty-five days has passed since the
3 previous physical, mental health or well care visit.
4 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
5 have become a law and shall apply to policies and contracts issued,
6 renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
