{"id":"SEC-02-080","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"02","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Financial Services","authority":"Insurance Law secs. 301, 3217-h, 4306-g; Public Health Law 4406-g","instrument":"Insurance Circular Letter No. 6 (2020)","title":"Telehealth and COVID-19 (cost-sharing waiver; emergency regulation to follow)","dateIssued":"2020-03-15","effective":"2020-03-15","end":"emergency regulation (11 NYCRR 52) continued through the state disaster emergency","startDate":"2020-03-15","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"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"],"clause":"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","functions":["TM","CB","OF"],"notes":"","sourceUrl":"https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/circular_letters/cl2020_06","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200330040450/https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/circular_letters/cl2020_06","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":157234,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-02","url":"/library/SEC-02-080","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-02-080","citation":"Department of Financial Services, Insurance Circular Letter No. 6 (2020) (Mar. 15, 2020) (Ex. SEC-02-080)","stateName":"New York","related":[]}