Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jan 05, 2022 | referred to ways and means |
Feb 09, 2021 | reported referred to ways and means |
Jan 26, 2021 | referred to health |
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Co-Sponsors
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Inez E. Dickens
Michaelle C. Solages
Thomas Abinanti
Multi-Sponsors
William Colton
Steven Cymbrowitz
Jeffrey Dinowitz
N. Nick Perry
A3386 (ACTIVE) - Details
A3386 (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 such coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.
A3386 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3386 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COOK, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DICKENS, SOLAGES, ABINANTI, HYNDMAN, PICHARDO, GLICK, GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, DINOWITZ, PERRY, J. RIVERA -- read once and referred 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: 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. (A) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SHALL ALSO INCLUDE 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. (B) MATERNITY CARE COVERAGE SHALL ALSO INCLUDE, AT A MINIMUM, PARENT EDUCATION, ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING IN BREAST OR BOTTLE FEEDING, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY NECESSARY MATERNAL AND NEWBORN CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS. (C) A MOTHER SHALL HAVE THE OPTION TO BE DISCHARGED EARLIER THAN THE TIME PERIODS ESTABLISHED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. IN SUCH CASE, THE INPATIENT HOSPITAL COVERAGE MUST INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE HOME CARE VISIT, WHICH SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO, RATHER THAN IN LIEU OF, ANY HOME HEALTH CARE COVERAGE OTHERWISE AVAILABLE. THE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM MUST COVER THE HOME CARE VISIT WHICH MAY BE REQUESTED AT ANY TIME WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS OF THE TIME OF DELIVERY (NINETY-SIX HOURS IN THE CASE OF A CAESAREAN SECTION) AND SHALL BE DELIVERED WITHIN TWEN- TY-FOUR HOURS, (I) AFTER DISCHARGE, OR (II) OF THE TIME OF THE MOTHER'S REQUEST, WHICHEVER IS LATER. § 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. LBD06107-01-1