Bill Text: NY S01802 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides medical assistance coverage for the cost of donor breast milk which is medically necessary for certain infants.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01802 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01802-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1802 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring medical assistance coverage for the cost of donor breast milk in certain circumstances The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (ff) to read as follows: 3 (ff) the cost of donor breast milk (PDHM), for inpatient use, for 4 which a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for an infant 5 who is medically or physically unable to receive maternal breast milk or 6 participate in breast feeding or whose mother is medically or physically 7 unable to produce maternal breast milk or participate in breast feeding 8 despite optimal lactation support. Such infant must: (i) have a docu- 9 mented birth weight of one thousand five hundred grams or less; or (ii) 10 have a congenital or acquired intestinal condition, and is therefore at 11 a high risk for development of necrotizing enterocolitis and/or 12 infection. Coverage for donor breast milk (PDHM) shall continue until 13 the infant is at an age of medical adjustment of thirty-four weeks 14 corrected gestational age and such coverage shall be not less than the 15 reasonable cost of such milk procured from a certified nonprofit milk 16 bank, plus reasonable processing and handling fees. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 18 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05023-01-9