A11587 • 2025

Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage

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Sponsor: Michaelle C. Solages
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage

Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage.

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Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Assembly
REFERRED TO INSURANCE

Official Summary Text

Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage
Relates to the applicability of the independent dispute resolution process to health care services subject to medical assistance program coverage.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11587

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 5, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the financial services law, in relation to the  applica-
          bility  of  the  independent dispute resolution process to health care
          services subject to medical assistance program coverage

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section  602 of the financial services law, as amended by
     2  section 1 of part BB of chapter 57 of the laws of 2026,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    §  602.  Applicability.  This  article  shall not apply to health care
     5  services, including emergency services, where physician fees are subject
     6  to schedules or other monetary limitations under any other law,  includ-
     7  ing the workers' compensation law and article fifty-one of the insurance
     8  law,  and  shall  not preempt any such law. [This article also shall not
     9  apply to health care services, including emergency services, subject  to
    10  medical  assistance  program coverage provided pursuant to section three
    11  hundred sixty-four-j of the social services law.]
    12    § 2. This act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and  shall  apply  to
    13  disputes submitted on or after such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16033-01-6