S 4242: Provides for health insurance coverage for nutritional care provided through licensed nutritionists.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4242 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 health insurance coverage for services by nutritionists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (J) and (K) of paragraph 1 of subsection (b) 2 of section 4301 of the insurance law, as relettered by chapter 456 of 3 the laws of 1993, are amended and a new subparagraph (L) is added to 4 read as follows: 5 (J) necessary appliances, drugs, medicines and supplies, [and] 6 (K) bio-analytical or clinical laboratory examinations and reports 7 thereof reported to a physician, osteopath, dentist, optometrist, podia- 8 trist, chiropractor or physical therapist made by any privately operated 9 bioanalytical or clinical laboratory[.], and 10 (L) nutritional care provided through licensed nutritionists. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07909-01-5