NY | The New York State Department of Financial Services has issued the following emergency adoption of 60th amendment to Regulation 62 (11 NYCRR 52).
This amendment prohibits authorized insurers and health maintenance organizations (collectively, “health care plans”) that provide comprehensive coverage for hospital, surgical, or medical care from imposing, and provides that no essential worker shall be required to pay, copayments, coinsurance, or annual deductibles (unless required by federal law for a high deductible health plan) for mental health services rendered by in-network providers on an outpatient basis for essential workers. The amendment requires every health care plan to provide written notification of the requirements of the amendment to its in-network mental health providers (“providers”) to ensure that the providers do not require an insured to pay a copayment, coinsurance, or annual deductible that is prohibited from being imposed pursuant to the amendment.