Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 28, 2020 |
committed to rules |
Mar 04, 2020 |
advanced to third reading |
Mar 03, 2020 |
2nd report cal. |
Mar 02, 2020 |
1st report cal.521 |
Jan 08, 2020 |
referred to insurance |
Jun 20, 2019 |
committed to rules |
May 15, 2019 |
advanced to third reading |
May 14, 2019 |
2nd report cal. |
May 13, 2019 |
1st report cal.664 |
Feb 08, 2019 |
referred to insurance |
Senate Bill S3526
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 46th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules 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
Votes
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
(D) 15th Senate District
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
(R) Senate District
2019-S3526 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S3526 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3526 SPONSOR: BRESLIN TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to payments to prehospital emergency medical services providers PURPOSE: To ensure that responding ambulance service companies receive direct payment for all ambulance service transports upon submission of an invoice to the insurance company without the need for the responding ambulance company to be a preferred provider. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends section 3224-a of the insurance law to provide that payments made to nonparticipating or non-preferred providers of ambu- lance services made by health insurers shall be done so directly to the provider or jointly to both the provider and the insured. Section 2 amends subparagraphs (c) and (d) of paragraph 24 of subsection
2019-S3526 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3526 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 8, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BRESLIN, SEWARD, ADDABBO, AKSHAR, BOYLE, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, HELMING, SEPULVEDA -- 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 payments to prehospi- tal emergency medical services providers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 3224-a of the insurance law is amended by adding a new subsection (k) to read as follows: (K) PAYMENTS TO NONPARTICIPATING OR NONPREFERRED PROVIDERS OF AMBU- LANCE SERVICES LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE THIRTY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW. (1) WHENEVER AN INSURER OR AN ORGANIZATION, OR CORPORATION LICENSED OR CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FORTY-THREE OR FORTY-SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER OR ARTICLE FORTY-FOUR OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW PROVIDES THAT ANY HEALTH CARE CLAIMS SUBMITTED UNDER CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS ISSUED OR ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE OR ARTICLE FORTY-TWO, FORTY-THREE OR FORTY-SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER AND ARTICLE FORTY-FOUR OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW ARE PAYABLE TO A PARTICIPATING OR PREFERRED PROVIDER OF AMBULANCE SERVICES FOR SERVICES RENDERED, THE INSURER, ORGANIZATION, OR CORPO- RATION LICENSED OR CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FORTY-THREE OR FORTY- SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER OR ARTICLE FORTY-FOUR OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW SHALL BE REQUIRED TO PAY SUCH BENEFITS EITHER DIRECTLY TO ANY SIMILARLY LICENSED NONPARTICIPATING OR NONPREFERRED PROVIDER AT THE USUAL AND CUSTOMARY CHARGE, WHICH SHALL NOT BE EXCESSIVE OR UNREASONABLE, WHEN THE PROVIDER HAS RENDERED SUCH SERVICES, HAS ON FILE A DULY EXECUTED ASSIGN- MENT OF BENEFITS, AND HAS CAUSED NOTICE OF SUCH ASSIGNMENT TO BE GIVEN TO THE INSURER, ORGANIZATION, OR CORPORATION LICENSED OR CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FORTY-THREE OR FORTY-SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER OR ARTI- CLE FORTY-FOUR OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW OR JOINTLY TO SUCH NONPARTIC- IPATING OR NONPREFERRED PROVIDER AND TO THE INSURED, SUBSCRIBER, OR OTHER COVERED PERSON; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN EITHER CASE THE INSUR- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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