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Insurance Circular Letter No. 6 (2020)

Telehealth and COVID-19 (cost-sharing waiver; emergency regulation to follow)

Department of Financial Services · New York (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
New York
Level
State
Authority
Insurance Law secs. 301, 3217-h, 4306-g; Public Health Law 4406-g
Issued
2020-03-15 Mar. 15, 2020
Effective
2020-03-15
End
emergency regulation (11 NYCRR 52) continued through the state disaster emergency (read as 2021-06-30)
In force
Mar. 15, 2020 to June 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • all insurers authorized to write accident and health insurance, Article 43 corporations, HMOs, student health plans, municipal cooperative health benefit plans, prepaid health services plans
Functions reached
  • TM
  • CB
  • OF
Collection
Physician Practices and Outpatient Care SEC-02

Operative words

the Department will be promulgating an emergency regulation to provide that, during the state of emergency for COVID-19, no policy or contract... may impose, and no insured is required to pay, copayments, coinsurance, or annual deductibles for an in-network service delivered via telehealth when such service would have been covered under the policy if it had been delivered in person (as read on the DFS site, Sept. 26, 2026)

Enforcement

Insurance Law sec. 109

Retrieval note

The circular letter text (No. 6 (2020), Mar. 15, 2020) verified.

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