Alex Bores’ Bills
A3986 · 2025–2026

Relates to the use of virtual credit cards by insurers and certain health care plans

Signed into law, Chapter 647 of 2025

Regulates how insurers pay providers electronically: addresses claim payments made by credit card, 'virtual credit card,' or electronic funds transfer that impose processing fees on the provider, and defines a virtual credit card as a single-use number linked to a fixed payment amount. (Auto-generated summary)

Official record

Official summary · NYS Open LegislationAuthorizes an insurer to pay a claim for reimbursement made by a provider using a credit card, virtual credit card or electronic funds transfer payment method that imposes on the provider a free or similar charge to process the payment; defines "virtual credit card" as a single-use series of numbers linked to a fixed dollar amount and provided by an insurer to a provider for the purpose of paying a claim for health care services performed by the provider; makes related provisions.

What it does: AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the public health law, in relation to the use of virtual credit cards by insurers and certain health care plans

Legislative history

  1. 2025-01-30Assembly: REFERRED TO INSURANCE
  2. 2025-05-16Assembly: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE
  3. 2025-05-16Assembly: PRINT NUMBER 3986A
  4. 2025-05-20Assembly: REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
  5. 2025-05-27Assembly: REPORTED
  6. 2025-05-27Assembly: RULES REPORT CAL.263
  7. 2025-05-27Assembly: ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.263
  8. 2025-05-27Assembly: PASSED ASSEMBLY
  9. 2025-05-27Assembly: DELIVERED TO SENATE
  10. 2025-05-27Senate: REFERRED TO INSURANCE
  11. 2025-06-11Senate: SUBSTITUTED FOR S2105A
  12. 2025-06-11Senate: 3RD READING CAL.1801
  13. 2025-06-11Senate: PASSED SENATE
  14. 2025-06-11Senate: RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
  15. 2025-12-08Assembly: DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
  16. 2025-12-19Assembly: SIGNED CHAP.647
  17. 2025-12-19Assembly: APPROVAL MEMO.31

Recorded votes

  1. 2025-06-11FLOOR: EXC 4, AYE 59