2017 New York Laws
ISC - Insurance
Article 56 - Health Care Arbitrations
5605 - Review of Health Maintenance Organization Arbitration Experience.

   5605.   Review  of  health  maintenance  organization  arbitration
  experience. No health maintenance organization shall offer enrollees the
  option of electing arbitration of claims pursuant to section  forty-four
  hundred   six-a   of   the  public  health  law  without  notifying  the
  superintendent of an intention  to  offer  the  arbitration  option  and
  obtaining   the  superintendent's  approval.  The  superintendent  shall
  approve such requests, subject to the limitations of this section and in
  a manner that allows for sufficient geographical and  program  diversity
  to  permit  an  effective  evaluation of the arbitration experience. The
  superintendent of financial services shall  require  health  maintenance
  organizations  to  submit,  on a quarterly basis, information concerning
  the numbers of enrollees who elect the arbitration  option,  along  with
  such    other   information   as   the   superintendent   may   require.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section forty-four  hundred  six-a  of
  the  public  health law, no health maintenance organization shall permit
  new enrollees to elect the arbitration of claims after  December  first,
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-one  or  after  such  organizations  have been
  notified by the superintendent that five hundred thousand  persons  have
  elected  to  arbitrate  claims, whichever event first occurs. Within one
  hundred twenty days of such date  or  event,  the  superintendent  shall
  submit  a  report  to  the  governor  and the legislature describing the
  experience of health maintenance organization enrollee  arbitration  and
  including any recommendations for the future of such program.