§ 4909. Site of service clinical review. (a) For purposes of this\nsection:\n (1) "Free-standing ambulatory surgical center" shall mean a diagnostic\nand treatment center authorized pursuant to article twenty-eight of the\npublic health law and operated independently from a hospital.\n (2) "Health care plan" shall mean an insurer, a corporation organized\npursuant to article forty-three of this chapter, a health maintenance\norganization certified pursuant to article forty-four of the public\nhealth law, a municipal cooperative health benefit plan certified\npursuant to article forty-seven of this chapter, and a student health\nplan established or maintained pursuant to section one thousand one\nhundred twenty-four of this chapter, that issues a health insurance\npolicy or contract or that arranges for care and services for members\nunder a contract with the department of health with a network of health\ncare providers and utilizes site of service clinical review to determine\ncoverage for services delivered by network participating providers.\n (3) "Hospital-based outpatient clinic" shall mean a clinic authorized\npursuant to article twenty-eight of the public health law and listed on\na hospital's operating certificate.\n (4) "Site of service clinical review" shall mean clinical criteria\napplied by a health care plan for the purpose of determining whether\nnon-urgent outpatient medical procedures and surgeries will be covered\nfor a given insured or enrollee when rendered by a network participating\nprovider at a hospital-based outpatient clinic rather than a\nfree-standing ambulatory surgical center.\n (b) Site of service clinical review shall be deemed utilization review\nin accordance with and subject to the requirements and protections of\nthis article and article forty-nine of the public health law, including\nthe right to internal and external appeal of denials related to site of\nservice clinical review.\n (c) Site of service clinical review shall consider the insured's\nhealth and safety, choice of health care provider, and timely access to\ncare and shall not be based solely on cost.\n (d) A health care plan that utilizes site of service clinical review\nthat is intended to direct insureds and enrollees to free-standing\nambulatory surgical centers shall be able to demonstrate to the\ndepartment or, as applicable, to the department of health, that it has\nan adequate network of free-standing ambulatory surgical center\nproviders to meet the health needs of insureds and enrollees and to\nprovide an appropriate choice of providers sufficient to render the\nservices covered under the policy or contract. Such network shall be in\ncompliance with network adequacy standards established by the\nsuperintendent and section three thousand two hundred forty-one of this\nchapter.\n (e) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, starting\nJanuary first, two thousand twenty-four, a health care plan that\nutilizes a site of service clinical review shall deliver a notice\ndisclosing and clearly explaining the site of service clinical review\nto:\n (1) policyholders, contract holders, insureds, and enrollees and\nprospective policyholders, contract holders, insureds, and enrollees at\nthe time of plan and policy or contract selection and at least ninety\ndays prior to the implementation of new site of service clinical review\nor modification of existing site of service clinical review. Such notice\nshall include the specific services under the site of service review\npolicy, a statement that site of service clinical review may limit the\nsettings in which services covered under the policy or contract may be\nprovided and render a network participating provider unable to perform a\nservice; shall disclose to insureds or enrollees any quality or cost\ndifferential, including differences in out-of-pocket costs, between the\nhospital-based outpatient clinic and the free-standing ambulatory\nsurgical center when serv
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