Provides that insurance policies that cover annual physicals and well care visits shall allow one visit per calendar year.

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A397A-2011 Actions

• Aug 1, 2012: signed chap.273
• Jul 20, 2012: delivered to governor
• Jun 12, 2012: RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 12, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 12, 2012: 3RD READING CAL.1168
• Jun 12, 2012: SUBSTITUTED FOR S5850A
• Jun 11, 2012: REFERRED TO RULES
• Jun 11, 2012: delivered to senate
• Jun 11, 2012: passed assembly
• Jun 11, 2012: ordered to third reading rules cal.73
• Jun 11, 2012: rules report cal.73
• Jun 11, 2012: reported
• Jun 6, 2012: reported referred to rules
• May 16, 2012: print number 397a
• May 16, 2012: amend and recommit to insurance
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to insurance
• Jan 5, 2011: referred to insurance

A397A-2011 Votes

A397A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                   397--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 5, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
    A.  MONTESANO  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
    -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Assem-
    bly Rule 3, sec. 2 --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
    reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

  AN  ACT  to amend the insurance law, in relation to annual physicals and
    well care visits

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section  1.  Subsection  (i)  of  section 3216 of the insurance law is
  amended by adding a new paragraph 29 to read as follows:

    (29) EVERY INDIVIDUAL POLICY WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR MEDICAL  OR
  SIMILAR  COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE  COVERAGE THAT INCLUDES COVERAGE FOR A PHYS-
  ICAL OR WELL CARE VISIT ONCE IN  EVERY  THREE  HUNDRED  SIXTY-FIVE  DAYS
  SHALL  BE  INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT SUCH PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE VISIT CAN
  BE HAD ONCE EVERY CALENDAR YEAR, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT  A  PERIOD
  OF  THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS HAS PASSED SINCE THE PREVIOUS PHYSICAL
  OR WELL CARE VISIT.
    S 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
  adding a new paragraph 18 to read as follows:

    (18) EVERY GROUP OR  BLANKET  POLICY  WHICH  PROVIDES  MEDICAL,  MAJOR
  MEDICAL  OR  SIMILAR  COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE THAT INCLUDES COVERAGE
  FOR A PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE VISIT ONCE IN EVERY THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE
  DAYS SHALL BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT SUCH PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE  VISIT
  CAN  BE  HAD  ONCE  EVERY  CALENDAR YEAR, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT A
  PERIOD OF THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS HAS PASSED  SINCE  THE  PREVIOUS
  PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE VISIT.
    S  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
  subsection (ii) to read as follows:


   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD02189-03-1

 A. 397--A                           2

    (II) EVERY CONTRACT ISSUED BY A CORPORATION SUBJECT TO THE  PROVISIONS
  OF THIS ARTICLE WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR MEDICAL OR SIMILAR COMPRE-
  HENSIVE-TYPE COVERAGE THAT INCLUDES COVERAGE FOR A PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE
  VISIT  ONCE  IN EVERY THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS SHALL BE INTERPRETED
  TO  MEAN  THAT  SUCH  PHYSICAL  OR WELL CARE VISIT CAN BE HAD ONCE EVERY
  CALENDAR YEAR, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT A PERIOD  OF  THREE  HUNDRED
  SIXTY-FIVE  DAYS  HAS  PASSED  SINCE  THE PREVIOUS PHYSICAL OR WELL CARE
  VISIT.
    S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
  have  become  a  law  and  shall apply to policies and contracts issued,
  renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.