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NY A03759
Bill
Status
1/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jeffrey Dinowitz
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AI Summary
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Extends the transitional period for patients to continue seeing their healthcare provider after the provider leaves the insurance network from 90 days to one year
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Extends the transitional period for new enrollees whose provider is out-of-network from 60 days to one year
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Allows patients with terminal illness or condition (defined as likely to cause death within three years) to continue receiving care from their current provider until death, regardless of network status
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Prohibits insurers from terminating or refusing to renew contracts with healthcare providers solely because they rendered an opinion that a patient's illness is terminal
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Bans provider incentives (monetary or otherwise) intended to induce providers to deliver care inconsistent with these patient continuity-of-care protections
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Takes effect 120 days after becoming law and applies to all contracts issued, renewed, modified, or amended after that date
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
referred to insurance
1/7/2026