S 4526: Expands health care plan contract coverage for any health care provider for one hundred twenty days after the termination of such contract.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4526 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding health care plan contract coverage for any health care provider for one hundred twenty days after the termination of such contract The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-d of section 4406-c of the public health law, 2 as added by chapter 451 of the laws of 2007, and as relettered by chap- 3 ter 237 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 4 5-d. If a contract between a plan and [a hospital] any health care 5 provider is not renewed or is terminated by either party, the parties 6 shall continue to abide by the terms of such contract, including 7 reimbursement terms, for a period of [two months] one hundred twenty 8 days from the effective date of termination or, in the case of a non-re- 9 newal, from the end of the contract period. Notice shall be provided to 10 all enrollees potentially affected by such termination or non-renewal 11 within fifteen days after commencement of the [two-months] one hundred 12 twenty day period. The commissioner shall have the authority to waive 13 the [two-months] one hundred twenty day period upon the request of 14 either party to a contract that is being terminated for cause. This 15 subdivision shall not apply where both parties mutually agree in writing 16 to the termination or non-renewal and the plan provides notice to the 17 enrollee at least thirty days in advance of the date of contract termi- 18 nation. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that 20 the amendments to subdivision 5-d of section 4406-c of the public 21 health law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal 22 of such subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03257-01-5