New York S 1756: Creates esophageal cancer educational pamphlets and requires esophageal cancer testing and treatments be covered by certain insurance plans

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S01756 Summary:

BILL NOS01756 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05581

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SPONSORPERSAUD

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COSPNSRHOYLMAN-SIGAL, MARTINEZ, RYAN C, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2404-e, Pub Health L; amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L

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Creates esophageal cancer educational pamphlets; requires esophageal cancer testing and treatments be covered by certain insurance plans.

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BILL NOS01756 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1756

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, WEIK -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
 to creating esophageal cancer educational pamphlets and requiring
 esophageal cancer testing and treatments be covered by certain insur-
 ance plans

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 2404-e to read as follows:
 3 § 2404-e. Esophageal cancer; duty to inform. 1. The commissioner shall
 4 develop a standardized written summary and educational pamphlet, in
 5 plain non-technical language, which shall explain the following:
 6 (a) the symptoms and risk factors for esophageal cancer;
 7 (b) the available methods for the detection and diagnosis of esopha-
 8 geal cancer, including information on the relative accuracy of the
 9 available detection and diagnostic techniques;
 10 (c) the availability of insurance coverage for diagnostic screening
 11 for esophageal cancer without cost sharing pursuant to paragraph forty
 12 of subsection (i) of section three thousand two hundred sixteen, para-
 13 graph twenty-three of subsection (l) of section three thousand two
 14 hundred twenty-one and subsection (ww) of section four thousand three
 15 hundred three of the insurance law; and
 16 (d) the alternative medically viable methods of treating esophageal
 17 cancer, including but not limited to hormonal, radiological, chemothera-
 18 peutic or surgical treatments, or combinations thereof. The summary
 19 shall contain information on esophageal post-treatment risks and other
 20 pertinent information to aid a person in deciding a course of treatment.
 21 The summary shall be updated as is necessary.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05061-01-5

 S. 1756 2

 1 2. The summary shall be provided to any health care provider or prac-
 2 titioner providing medical treatment in accordance with subdivision
 3 three of this section.
 4 3. The standardized written summary and educational pamphlet provided
 5 for by subdivision one of this section may be provided by a health care
 6 provider to each person under their care. Health care providers shall
 7 provide to and discuss with each person under their care the standard-
 8 ized written summary and educational pamphlet where such person is or
 9 may be at risk for esophageal cancer or who has been diagnosed to be
 10 afflicted with esophageal cancer upon said diagnosis, or as soon there-
 11 after as practicable. A person shall be deemed at risk for esophageal
 12 cancer where such person has a family history of esophageal cancer.
 13 4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to create a cause of
 14 action for lack of informed consent in any instance in which such cause
 15 of action would be limited by section twenty-eight hundred five-d of
 16 this chapter.
 17 5. The commissioner shall have the written summary, required by this
 18 section, completed and prepared for distribution on or before January
 19 first, two thousand twenty-six.
 20 § 2. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is amended by
 21 adding a new paragraph 40 to read as follows:
 22 (40) Every policy that provides coverage for hospital, surgical or
 23 medical care shall provide coverage for the screening and