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NY A07981

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/16/2025

Primary Sponsor

John McDonald

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Requires contracts between insurers/health care plans and hospitals to include provisions for electronic sharing of medical records with insurers and utilization review agents for utilization review purposes

  • Mandates that general hospitals participating in health care plan provider networks must timely share electronic medical records with those plans for utilization review

  • Restricts use of disclosed records exclusively to individual claim care review, adjudication, and patient privacy promotion—prohibits use for auditing, detecting billing patterns, or abuse detection

  • Requires health care plans to implement interoperability protocols for different billing systems and encourages HITRUST certification for data security and privacy compliance

  • Takes effect 90 days after becoming law, with contract provisions applying to contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on or after that date

Legislative Description

Requires that a contract between an insurer and a hospital shall include a provision that provides for medical records requested by the insurer or its utilization review agent to be made available electronically by the hospital; limits the use of disclosed records.

Last Action

referred to insurance

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Insurance4/16/2025

Full Bill Text

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