S 4083: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4083 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 their 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 § 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. LBD03095-02-5