Bill Text: NY S04795 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4795 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires all insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for maternity patients and their newborns for hospital stays of at least 48 hours following childbirth by natural delivery and 96 hours following childbirth by caesarean section; provides similar coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04795 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04795-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4795
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  establishing
          mandatory  minimum  medicaid  coverage  for  hospital  confinement for
          childbirth
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  365-a  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
     3    6-a. Medicaid assistance shall also include, for mother  and  newborn,
     4  coverage of hospital confinement of at least forty-eight hours following
     5  a  vaginal  delivery and at least ninety-six hours following a caesarean
     6  section.   Notwithstanding the above, a  social  services  district  may
     7  provide  coverage  for a shorter period of hospital confinement provided
     8  that:
     9    (a) the mother in her sole discretion,  exercises  the  option  to  be
    10  discharged  from the hospital earlier than the time period stated above;
    11  and
    12    (b) the treating physician,  in  accordance  with  generally  accepted
    13  medical  standards, has determined that the mother and newborn are ready
    14  for discharge; and
    15    (c) post-discharge follow-up includes at least one home visit provided
    16  within twenty-four hours of discharge by a licensed health care provider
    17  whose scope of practice includes  providing  postpartum  care  and  such
    18  other  home  visits  as  are  deemed  appropriate. Coverage of such home
    19  visits shall include, at a minimum,  parent  education,  assistance  and
    20  training  in  breast or bottle feeding and the performance of any neces-
    21  sary maternal and newborn physical assessments and shall be in  addition
    22  to,  rather  than  in  lieu  of, any home health care coverage otherwise
    23  available.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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