Assembly Actions -
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Feb 14, 2012 |
referred to health delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 04, 2012 |
ordered to third reading cal.79 returned to assembly died in senate |
Feb 14, 2011 |
referred to health delivered to senate passed assembly |
Feb 10, 2011 |
advanced to third reading cal.32 |
Feb 08, 2011 |
reported |
Jan 12, 2011 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A1808
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
DINOWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Audrey Pheffer
Sandy Galef
Earlene Hooper
Richard Gottfried
multi-Sponsors
William Boyland
James F. Brennan
William Colton
Barbara Lifton
2011-A1808 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Insurance Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§4803 & 4804, Ins L; amd §§4403 & 4406-d, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
A633
2013-2014: A366
2015-2016: A1932
2017-2018: A256
2019-2020: A5033
2021-2022: A2299
2023-2024: A5129
2011-A1808 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Extends period during which health maintenance organization enrollees may continue to receive services from a health care provider who disaffiliates from 60 or 90 days to 1 year, or in case of terminal illness, until the time of such insured's death; bars incentives which induce a provider to provide health care to an enrollee in a manner inconsistent with law.
2011-A1808 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1808 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 12, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, PHEFFER, GALEF, HOOPER, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, BRENNAN, COLTON, LIFTON, SWEE- NEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the public health law, in relation to access to health care providers in managed care plans THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 4803 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: (e) No insurer shall terminate or refuse to renew a contract for participation in the in-network benefits portion of an insurer's network for a managed care product solely because the health care professional has: (1) advocated on behalf of an insured; (2) [has] filed a complaint against the insurer; (3) [has] appealed a decision of the insurer; (4) provided information or filed a report pursuant to section forty-four hundred six-c of the public health law; [or] (5) requested a hearing or review pursuant to this section; OR (6) RENDERED AN OPINION REGARDING WHETHER AN INSURED'S ILLNESS IS TERMINAL PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR THOU- SAND EIGHT HUNDRED FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE. S 2. Subsections (e) and (f) of section 4804 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, are amended to read as follows: (e) (1) If an insured's health care provider leaves the insurer's in-network benefits portion of its network of providers for a managed care product for reasons other than those for which the provider would not be eligible to receive a hearing pursuant to paragraph one of subsection (b) of section [forty-eight] FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT hundred three of this [chapter] ARTICLE, the insurer shall permit the insured to continue [an ongoing course of treatment with] TO RECEIVE HEALTH CARE PROCEDURES, TREATMENTS, AND SERVICES FROM the insured's current health care provider during a transitional period of (i) up to [ninety days] EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04377-01-1
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