Bill Text: NY S02556 | 2011-2012 | 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 similar coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-12 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S02556 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02556-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2556
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 25, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. HUNTLEY -- 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 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    S 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.
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