New York S 6295: Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for epi-pens for individuals 18 years old and younger

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S06295 Summary:

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Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L

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Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for epi-pens for individuals 18 years old and younger.

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03/10/2025REFERRED TO INSURANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INSURANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6295

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 10, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring health
 insurance plans to provide coverage for epi-pens for individuals 18
 years old and younger

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

 1 Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is
 2 amended by adding a new paragraph 41 to read as follows:
 3 (41) Every insurer issuing a policy of accident and health insurance
 4 delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall make available and,
 5 if requested by the insured, provide coverage of medically necessary
 6 epinephrine auto-injector devices for any insured individual who is
 7 eighteen years old or younger. For the purposes of this paragraph,
 8 "epinephrine auto-injector device" shall have the same meaning as
 9 provided in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section three thousand-c
 10 of the public health law.
 11 § 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
 12 adding a new paragraph 24 to read as follows:
 13 (24) Every group or blanket policy of accident and health insurance
 14 delivered or issued for delivery in this state which provides hospital,
 15 surgical or medical coverage shall make available and, if requested by
 16 the insured, provide coverage of medically necessary epinephrine auto-
 17 injector devices for any insured individual who is eighteen years old or
 18 younger. For the purposes of this paragraph, "epinephrine auto-injector
 19 device" shall have the same meaning as provided in paragraph (b) of
 20 subdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.
 21 § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
 22 subsection (ww) to read as follows:
 23 (ww) Every medical expense indemnity corporation, hospital service
 24 corporation and health service corporation which provides coverage for

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10433-01-5

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 1 medical, surgical or major medical care shall make available and, if
 2 requested by the covered person, provide coverage of medically necessary
 3 epinephrine auto-injector devices for any insured individual who is
 4 eighteen years old or younger. For the purposes of this subsection,
 5 "epinephrine auto-injector device" shall have the same meaning as
 6 provided in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section three thousand-c
 7 of the public health law.
 8 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 9 have become a law, and shall apply to any contract or renewal or exten-
 10 sion of contract dated after this act shall have become a law.

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