Bill Text: NY A06080 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to establishing a remote maternal health services pilot program for Medicaid recipients; provides that such program shall be established during fiscal years 2024-2025, 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 to provide: remote maternal health services to eligible Medicaid recipients, medically necessary remote maternal health services to such eligible recipients for up to 12 months postpartum and payment to healthcare providers who provide remote maternal health services that includes the cost of the remote patient monitoring devices being used.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A06080 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06080-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6080--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- 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 a remote maternal health services pilot program for Medicaid recipients The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 365-kk to read as follows: 3 § 365-kk. Remote maternal health services pilot program. 1. For the 4 purposes of this section, "remote maternal health services" means: 5 (a) the use of digital technology: 6 (i) to collect medical and other forms of health data from a patient 7 and electronically transmit that information securely to a healthcare 8 provider in a different location for interpretation and recommendation; 9 and 10 (ii) that is compliant with the federal Health Insurance Portability 11 and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. § 1320d et seq.) and approved 12 by the federal food and drug administration; and 13 (b) the use of a device that: 14 (i) performs remote fetal monitoring, including maternal heart rate, 15 fetal heart rate, amniotic fluid, placenta location, and fetal presenta- 16 tion, tone, and movement; 17 (ii) measures physiological data, including blood pressure, pulse, 18 pulse oximetry, weight, blood glucose levels, or other physiological 19 data determined to be medically necessary; 20 (iii) uses remote non-stress test technology; 21 (iv) uses remote ultrasound technology; or 22 (v) uses doppler effect technology. 23 2. The commissioner shall develop and implement a pilot program during 24 fiscal years two thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five, two EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09759-03-3A. 6080--A 2 1 thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six, and two thousand twenty- 2 six--two thousand twenty-seven to provide: 3 (a) remote maternal health services to a Medicaid recipient eligible 4 under subdivision three of this section; 5 (b) medically necessary remote maternal health services to such an 6 eligible Medicaid recipient for up to twelve months postpartum; and 7 (c) payment to healthcare providers who provide remote maternal health 8 services that includes the cost of the remote patient monitoring devices 9 being used. 10 3. A Medicaid recipient is eligible to receive remote maternal health 11 services pursuant to the pilot program established by this section, if: 12 (a) the recipient is pregnant; 13 (b) the recipient's healthcare provider determines that remote mater- 14 nal health services are in the best interest of the patient; 15 (c) the recipient's healthcare provider determines the recipient has 16 an increased likelihood of experiencing a higher-risk pregnancy due to: 17 (i) existing health conditions, such as high blood pressure, polycys- 18 tic ovary syndrome, diabetes, kidney disease, autoimmune disease, 19 thyroid disease, obesity, HIV/AIDS, or Zika infection; 20 (ii) age factors, including teenage pregnancy or pregnancy after thir- 21 ty-five years of age; 22 (iii) lifestyle factors, such as alcohol, tobacco, or drug use; or 23 (iv) conditions of pregnancy, including multiple gestation, gestation- 24 al diabetes, preeclampsia, eclampsia, previous preterm births, or birth 25 defects or genetic conditions in the fetus; 26 (d) the recipient lives in a county without a licensed 27 obstetrician/gynecologist who participates in Medicaid; 28 (e) the recipient's healthcare provider determines the recipient is 29 unable to access consistent obstetrical care due to factors that include 30 transportation, child care, employment requirements, and socioeconomics; 31 and 32 (f) the remote maternal health services meet the criteria of subdivi- 33 sion one of this section. 34 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 35 the date on which it shall have become a law.