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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  health  insurance
   coverage for services by nutritionists
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraphs (J) and (K) of paragraph 1 of subsection  (b)
 of  section  4301  of the insurance law, as relettered by chapter 456 of
 the laws of 1993, are amended and a new subparagraph  (L)  is  added  to
 read as follows:
   (J) necessary appliances, drugs, medicines and supplies, [and]
   (K)  bio-analytical  or  clinical  laboratory examinations and reports
 thereof reported to a physician, osteopath, dentist, optometrist, podia-
 trist, chiropractor or physical therapist made by any privately operated
 bioanalytical or clinical laboratory[.], AND
   (L) NUTRITIONAL CARE PROVIDED THROUGH LICENSED NUTRITIONISTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07794-01-1