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NY A 4262

in committee

Enacts the Health Care Nondiscrimination Act of 2025

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Enacts the Health Care Nondiscrimination Act; requires insurance coverage and health plans to implement equality and non-discrimination between licensed health care providers; requires fee parity between different classes of licensed providers providing the similar or like-kind services; requires practitioners to discuss and refer or prescribe non-pharmacological treatment alternatives before prescribing an opioid treatment; allows any licensed health care provider to perform certain services, including certifying disability and employment by school districts; provides for enforcement and penalties.

Introduced
Status date
Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO INSURANCE
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • David Weprinprimary
  • Jen Lunsfordcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-31

    REFERRED TO INSURANCE

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO INSURANCE

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: A 9865not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 658
  • Companion bill: S 5204

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