Bill Text: NY S07126 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires insurance coverage for lactation consultant services by professionally certified counselors who evaluate and manage lactation and infant feeding problems and provide preventative clinical consulting to prevent or minimize the occurrence of potential problems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-09 - PRINT NUMBER 7126A [S07126 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07126-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7126

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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  insurance
          coverage for lactation consultant services

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

     1    Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 3216  of  the  insurance  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph 39 to read as follows:
     3    (39)  Every  policy  that  provides coverage for hospital, surgical or
     4  medical care shall provide outpatient coverage for lactation  consultant
     5  services.    Coverage  provided  under  this paragraph may be subject to
     6  annual deductibles and co-insurance as deemed appropriate by the  super-
     7  intendent  and  that are consistent with those imposed on other benefits
     8  within a given policy. For the purposes of  this  paragraph,  "lactation
     9  consultant"  shall  mean a professionally certified counselor who evalu-
    10  ates and manages lactation and  infant  feeding  problems  and  provides
    11  preventive  clinical consulting to prevent or minimize the occurrence of
    12  potential problems.
    13    § 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    14  adding a new paragraph 23 to read as follows:
    15    (23) Every group or blanket policy delivered or issued for delivery in
    16  this state that provides coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care
    17  shall provide such coverage for lactation consultant services.  For  the
    18  purposes  of this paragraph, "lactation consultant" shall mean a profes-
    19  sionally certified counselor who evaluates  and  manages  lactation  and
    20  infant  feeding  problems and provides preventive clinical consulting to
    21  prevent or minimize the occurrence of potential problems.
    22    § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    23  subsection (uu) to read as follows:
    24    (uu)  A  medical  expense  indemnity  corporation,  a hospital service
    25  corporation or a health service corporation that provides  coverage  for

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07184-01-3
        S. 7126                             2

     1  hospital,  surgical  or  medical  care  shall  provide such coverage for
     2  lactation consultant services. For  the  purposes  of  this  subsection,
     3  "lactation  consultant"  shall mean a professionally certified counselor
     4  who  evaluates  and  manages  lactation  and infant feeding problems and
     5  provides preventive clinical  consulting  to  prevent  or  minimize  the
     6  occurrence of potential problems.
     7    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     8  ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to  all
     9  insurance  policies,  contracts  and  plans  issued,  renewed, modified,
    10  altered or amended on or after such effective date.