Bill Text: NY S07622 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires information on possible complications from pregnancy that can lead to death; requires screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-19 - referred to health [S07622 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7622
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 31, 2018
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        Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to maternal mortality
          reporting  and  advancement  of  best  practices;  and  in relation to
          providing information on possible complications from pregnancy
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2509 to read as follows:
     3    § 2509. Maternal mortality reporting and  advancement  of  best  prac-
     4  tices.  1.  For  purposes of this section, the term "maternal mortality"
     5  means the cessation of respiration and circulation for a woman during or
     6  up to a year from the end of pregnancy, from any  cause  related  to  or
     7  aggravated by the pregnancy or its management.
     8    2.  The  department  shall  work  with stakeholders and experts in the
     9  state and other states to examine procedures found  to  reduce  maternal
    10  mortality rates, and based on its findings develop evidence-based quali-
    11  ty  improvement procedures that maternal care providers can implement to
    12  prevent maternal mortality.
    13    3. The department shall work with providers to ensure the adoption  of
    14  procedures  pursuant  to subdivision two of this section and shall track
    15  the percentage of maternal care providers that have adopted such  proce-
    16  dures.
    17    4.  No  later  than November thirtieth, two thousand eighteen, and not
    18  later than November thirtieth annually thereafter, the department  shall
    19  submit  to  the  governor, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary
    20  president of the senate and the respective chairpersons of the  assembly
    21  and senate health committees a report on the development and adoption of
    22  procedures  to  reduce maternal mortality, the rate of adoption of these
    23  procedures by providers in the state, and the  effect  these  procedures
    24  have had on the maternal mortality rate in the state.
    25    5.  The report shall include data available regarding maternal mortal-
    26  ity in the state including, but not limited to:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (a) the number of  maternal  mortalities,  disaggregated  by  race  or
     2  ethnicity and county; and
     3    (b)  the  maternal mortality ratio, disaggregated by race or ethnicity
     4  and county where available and statistically reliable.
     5    6. The department shall publish the disaggregated  maternal  mortality
     6  data  collected  pursuant to subdivision five of this section as part of
     7  its maternal and infant health indicators, to the extent  such  data  is
     8  available to the department.
     9    §  2.  Subdivision  1-b of section 2803-j of the public health law, as
    10  amended by chapter 199 of the laws  of  2014,  is  amended  to  read  as
    11  follows:
    12    1-b. The informational leaflet shall also include information relating
    13  to  the  physical  and  mental  health  of  the  maternity patient after
    14  discharge from the hospital, including, but not limited to,  information
    15  about maternal depression and information on possible complications from
    16  pregnancy  that  can  lead to death.  The commissioner, in collaboration
    17  with the commissioner of mental health,  shall  review  and  update  the
    18  information  on  maternal depression contained in the leaflet, as neces-
    19  sary. The informational leaflets shall be made available to patients  in
    20  the top six languages spoken in the state, other than English, according
    21  to the latest available data from the United States Census Bureau.
    22    §  3.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2803-n of the public
    23  health law, as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of 2014, is amended to
    24  read as follows:
    25    (b) Maternity care shall also include, at minimum,  parent  education,
    26  assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, education on mater-
    27  nal  depression,  education  on maternal depression screening and refer-
    28  rals, including screenings and referrals to identify conditions  identi-
    29  fied  as  presenting  a  serious threat to the life of the mother in the
    30  year after pregnancy, and the performance of any necessary maternal  and
    31  newborn  clinical assessments. Notwithstanding this requirement, nothing
    32  in this paragraph is intended to result in  the  hospital  charging  any
    33  amount  for  such  services in addition to the applicable charge for the
    34  maternity inpatient hospital admission.
    35    § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    36  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    37  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    38  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    39  on or before such effective date.