A 7249: Requires insurance companies to issue joint checks for payment to an insured and a health care provider in certain circumstances.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7249 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring insur- ance companies to issue joint checks for payment to an insured and a health care provider in certain circumstances 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 4406-j to read as follows: 3 § 4406-j. Payment for out-of-network health care services; joint 4 checks. An insurance company subject to article thirty-two of the insur- 5 ance law, shall issue and provide an insured with a joint check made out 6 to both the insured and to a health care provider for the purposes of 7 payment to such health care provider for any out-of-network services 8 rendered to the insured. Such check shall list the full name of the 9 insured with the word "and" after such name followed by the name of the 10 health care provider or group practice. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10417-01-5