Requires health insurers to provide coverage for speech therapy for stuttering

Requires health insurers to provide coverage for speech therapy for stuttering.

VETO MESSAGE - No. 44 TO THE ASSEMBLY: I am returning herewith, without my approval, the following bill: Assembly Bill Number 7321-A, entitled: "AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring health insurers to provide coverage for speech therapy for stuttering" NOT APPROVED This bill would require commercial health insurance policies that provide medical, major medical, or similar comprehensive-type coverage to cover speech therapy for stuttering with no cost sharing. The bill would prohibit such coverage from being subject to any durational bene- fit limitations. Individual and small group health insurance policies are already required to cover habilitative and rehabilitative speech therapy for all conditions including stuttering. However, such coverage may be subject to cost sharing and durational benefit limitations. As such, the bill would expand coverage in a way that ...