Bill Text: NY S08407 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurance contracts cover postpartum pelvic floor physical therapy for new mothers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S08407 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08407-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8407

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to  requiring  postpartum
          pelvic floor physical therapy be covered under maternity care

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
     2  (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of  the
     3  laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ii)  Maternity  care  coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
     5  education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
     6  tum pelvic floor physical therapy, and the performance of any  necessary
     7  maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
     8    § 2. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 5 of subsection (k) of
     9  section 3221 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws of
    10  1996, is amended to read as follows:
    11    (ii)  Maternity  care  coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
    12  education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
    13  tum pelvic floor physical therapy, and the performance of any  necessary
    14  maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
    15    § 3. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 4303
    16  of  the insurance law, as amended by chapter 661 of the laws of 1997, is
    17  amended to read as follows:
    18    (B) Maternity care coverage also shall  include,  at  minimum,  parent
    19  education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
    20  tum  pelvic floor physical therapy, and the performance of any necessary
    21  maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    23  law  and shall apply to policies or contracts issued, renewed, modified,
    24  altered, or amended on or after such date.  Effective  immediately,  the
    25  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    26  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    27  to be made and completed on or before such date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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