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Apr 06, 2011 | enacting clause stricken |
Feb 24, 2011 | referred to social services |
Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken
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A5612 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S2556
- Current Committee:
- Law Section:
- Social Services Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง365-a, Soc Serv L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010: A5047, S3117
2013-2014: A2424, S1335
2015-2016: A7110, S1891
2017-2018: A5359, S3288
2019-2020: A6381, S4795
2021-2022: A3386, S5290
A5612 (ACTIVE) - Summary
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.
A5612 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5612 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 24, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GIBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services 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: Section 1. Section 365-a of the social services law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows: 6-A. MEDICAID ASSISTANCE SHALL ALSO INCLUDE, FOR MOTHER AND NEWBORN, COVERAGE OF HOSPITAL CONFINEMENT OF AT LEAST FORTY-EIGHT HOURS FOLLOWING A VAGINAL DELIVERY AND AT LEAST NINETY-SIX HOURS FOLLOWING A CAESAREAN SECTION. NOTWITHSTANDING THE ABOVE, A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT MAY PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR A SHORTER PERIOD OF HOSPITAL CONFINEMENT PROVIDED THAT: (A) THE MOTHER IN HER SOLE DISCRETION, EXERCISES THE OPTION TO BE DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL EARLIER THAN THE TIME PERIOD STATED ABOVE; AND (B) THE TREATING PHYSICIAN, IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED MEDICAL STANDARDS, HAS DETERMINED THAT THE MOTHER AND NEWBORN ARE READY FOR DISCHARGE; AND (C) POST-DISCHARGE FOLLOW-UP INCLUDES AT LEAST ONE HOME VISIT PROVIDED WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF DISCHARGE BY A LICENSED HEALTH CARE PROVIDER WHOSE SCOPE OF PRACTICE INCLUDES PROVIDING POSTPARTUM CARE AND SUCH OTHER HOME VISITS AS ARE DEEMED APPROPRIATE. COVERAGE OF SUCH HOME VISITS SHALL INCLUDE, AT A MINIMUM, PARENT EDUCATION, ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING IN BREAST OR BOTTLE FEEDING AND THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY NECES- SARY MATERNAL AND NEWBORN PHYSICAL ASSESSMENTS AND SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO, RATHER THAN IN LIEU OF, ANY HOME HEALTH CARE COVERAGE OTHERWISE AVAILABLE. S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.