New York S 4083: Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth

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S04083 Summary:

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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.

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01/31/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4083

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 31, 2025
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 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 their 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.
 LBD03095-02-5

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