What's happening
This bill requires insurance policies in New York to cover prenatal vitamins when prescribed by authorized healthcare providers.
Why it matters
Addresses gaps in prenatal care by ensuring that insurance policies must cover prenatal vitamins when prescribed, helping remove cost barriers for pregnant individuals.
May improve maternal and infant health outcomes statewide by facilitating easier access to essential prenatal nutrients, which are linked to lower risks of birth defects and complications.
Provides flexibility to insurers by allowing deductibles and coinsurance for prenatal vitamins, as long as these are consistent with similar drug benefits, potentially limiting premium increases but still requiring coverage.
Standardizes prenatal vitamin coverage across a range of insurance types (individual, group, and health service corporations), reducing disparities in access based on type of insurance plan.
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Cover Prenatal Vitamins
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Sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to insurance
- Referred to insurance
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3652
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, JAFFEE, PERRY, TITUS, ROZIC, SIMOTAS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MOSLEY, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage for prenatal vitamins
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new paragraph 10-a to read as follows:
(10-a)(A) Every policy which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when prescribed or ordered by a health care provider legally authorized to prescribe under title eight of the education law.
(B) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent with those established for other benefits within a given policy.
§ 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new paragraph 5-a to read as follows:
(5-a)(A) Every group or blanket policy which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when prescribed or ordered by a health care provider legally authorized to prescribe under title eight of the education law.
(B) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance, as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent with those established for other benefits within a given policy.
§ 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1)(1) Every contract issued by a corporation subject to the provisions of this article which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall provide coverage for prenatal vitamins when prescribed or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ordered by a health care provider legally authorized to prescribe under title eight of the education law.
(2) Such coverage may be subject to annual deductibles and coinsurance as may be deemed appropriate by the superintendent and as are consistent with those established for other benefits within a given contract.
§ 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to policies issued, reissued, renewed, modified or amended on or after such date.
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