Senate Bill S8526

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires the provision of additional insurance coverage for pre-term labor hospitalizations, monitoring and counseling

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S8526 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10314
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7492
2023-2024: A1096

2019-S8526 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires insurance policies to provide coverage for pre-term labor hospitalizations, home visits to monitor pre-term labor patients and counseling.

2019-S8526 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8526 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8526
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  requiring  insurance
   policies to provide coverage for pre-term labor hospitalizations, home
   visits to monitor pre-term labor patients and counseling
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Item (i) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
 (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter  238  of
 the  laws  of 2010, is amended and two new subparagraphs (C) and (D) are
 added to read as follows:
   (i) Every policy which provides hospital, surgical or medical coverage
 shall provide coverage for maternity care, including hospital,  surgical
 or  medical  care  to the same extent that hospital, surgical or medical
 coverage is provided for illness  or  disease  under  the  policy.  Such
 maternity  care  coverage,  other  than  coverage  for perinatal compli-
 cations, shall include inpatient hospital coverage FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS
 IN PRE-TERM LABOR,  INPATIENT  HOSPITAL  COVERAGE  for  mother  and  for
 newborn for at least forty-eight hours after childbirth for any delivery
 other  than a caesarean section, and for at least ninety-six hours after
 a caesarean section. Such coverage for maternity care shall include  the
 services  of a midwife licensed pursuant to article one hundred forty of
 the education law, practicing consistent with section sixty-nine hundred
 fifty-one of the education law and affiliated or practicing in  conjunc-
 tion  with  a  facility licensed pursuant to article twenty-eight of the
 public health law, but no insurer shall be required to pay for  duplica-
 tive routine services actually provided by both a licensed midwife and a
 physician.
   (C)  COVERAGE  PROVIDED  UNDER  THIS SUBSECTION FOR CARE AND TREATMENT
 DURING PREGNANCY SHALL INCLUDE PROVISION FOR PART-TIME  OR  INTERMITTENT
 HOME  NURSING  CARE  BY OR UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A REGISTERED PROFES-
 SIONAL NURSE TO MONITOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS WHO HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED  BY  A
 PHYSICIAN  AS  HAVING  EXPERIENCED  PRE-TERM LABOR, AND FOR THE ADMINIS-
 TRATION OF MAKENA (17-ALPHA HYDROXYPROGESTERONE) BY SUCH NURSE. AS  USED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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