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

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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]

Download: New_York-2017-A05359-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5359--A
                               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 -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        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) medical assistance shall also include inpatient hospital  coverage
    10  for  mother  and for newborn for at least forty-eight hours after child-
    11  birth for any delivery other than a caesarean section, and for at  least
    12  ninety-six hours after a caesarean section;
    13    (b)  maternity  care coverage shall also include, at a minimum, parent
    14  education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, and  the
    15  performance  of any necessary maternal and newborn clinical assessments;
    16  and
    17    (c) the mother shall have the option to be discharged earlier than the
    18  time periods established in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.  In  such
    19  case,  the  inpatient  hospital  coverage must include at least one home
    20  care visit, which shall be in addition to, rather than in lieu  of,  any
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  home  health  care  coverage otherwise available. The medical assistance
     2  program must cover the home care visit which may  be  requested  at  any
     3  time  within forty-eight hours of the time of delivery (ninety-six hours
     4  in  the case of a caesarean section) and shall be delivered within twen-
     5  ty-four hours, (i) after discharge, or (ii) of the time of the  mother's
     6  request, whichever is later.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     8  it shall have become a law.