§ 20 — Accelerated death benefits

§ 20. Accelerated death benefits. 1. For purposes of this section,\n"health care facility" means a hospital and residential health care\nfacility as defined in article twenty-eight of this chapter, a home care\nservices agency as defined in article thirty-six of this chapter, a\nhospice as defined in article forty of this chapter, and a continuing\ncare retirement community as defined in article forty-six of this\nchapter.\n 2. No health care facility or practitioner shall coerce or require or\nattempt to coerce or require any person to accelerate payment of part or\nall of the death benefit or special surrender value under a life\ninsurance policy, as authorized by paragraph one of subsection (a) of\nsection one thousand one hundred thirteen of the insurance law, or to\nenter into a viatical settlement pursuant to the provisions of article\nseventy-eight of the insurance law, as a condition of admission,\nproviding or continuing care.\n