Bill Text: NY A05359 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 such coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-05 - reported referred to ways and means [A05359 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5359
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 8, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. COOK, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, DINOWITZ, GLICK, HIKIND,  PERRY,  RIVERA  --  read
          once and referred 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.
                                                                   LBD06110-01-7