


    § 20.  Accelerated death benefits.   1. For purposes of this section,
  "health care facility" means a  hospital  and  residential  health  care
  facility as defined in article twenty-eight of this chapter, a home care
  services  agency  as  defined  in  article thirty-six of this chapter, a
  hospice as defined in article forty of this chapter,  and  a  continuing
  care  retirement  community  as  defined  in  article  forty-six of this
  chapter.
    2. No health care facility or practitioner shall coerce or require  or
  attempt to coerce or require any person to accelerate payment of part or
  all  of  the  death  benefit  or  special  surrender  value under a life
  insurance policy, as authorized by paragraph one of  subsection  (a)  of
  section  one  thousand  one hundred thirteen of the insurance law, or to
  enter into a viatical settlement pursuant to the provisions  of  article
  seventy-eight  of  the  insurance  law,  as  a  condition  of admission,
  providing or continuing care.

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