New York Civil Service Law Article 11 - HEALTH BENEFITS FOR STATE AND RETIRED STATE EMPLOYEES

• 160 - Regulations Governing the Health Benefit Plan; Advisory Committee.
  1. The president, subject to the provisions of this article, is hereby empowered to establish regulations relating to: (1) the eligibility of (a) active and...
• 161 - Health Insurance.
  1. The president is hereby authorized and directed to establish a health benefit plan for state officers and employees and their dependents and officers and...
• 161-a - Implementation of Negotiated Agreements.
  1. Where, and to the extent that, an agreement between the state and an employee organization entered into pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter...
• 162 - Contract for Health Benefits.
  1. The president is hereby authorized and directed to purchase a contract or contracts to provide the benefits under the plan of health benefits determined...
• 163 - Eligibility for Benefits.
  1. All persons in the service of the state, whether elected, appointed or employed, who elect to participate in such health benefit plan shall be...
• 163-a - Supplementary Plan.
  1. For the purposes of this section, the term "supplementary plan" shall mean a health benefit plan which provides an adjustment to the deductible or...
• 164 - Coverage for Dependents.
  1. Each employee shall be entitled to have his spouse and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the president, included in the coverage...
• 165 - Termination of Active Employment.
  1. The health benefit coverage of any employee and his or her dependents, if any, shall cease upon the discontinuance of his or her term...
• 165-a - Continuation of State Health Benefit Plans for Survivors of Employees of the State And/or of a Political Subdivision or of a Public Authority.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the president shall permit the unremarried spouse and the dependents, otherwise qualified as eligible for coverage...
• 166 - Payment of Benefits.
  Any benefits payable under the plan may be made either directly to the attending physicians, hospitals, medical groups, or others furnishing the services upon which...
• 167 - Contributions.
  1. (a) The full cost of premium or subscription charges for the coverage of retired state employees who are enrolled in the statewide and the...
• 167-a - Reimbursement for Medicare Premium Charges.
  Upon exclusion from the coverage of the health benefit plan of supplementary medical insurance benefits for which an active or retired employee or a dependent...
• 168 - Assessment of Certain Costs.
  1. If the salary or compensation of any officers and employees of the state is paid from a special or administrative fund or funds, other...
• 170 - Separability.
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision or section or part of this article shall be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019