S1241 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
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.
- Title
- Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-05-15
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2023-01-10
- Same as
- A5966
- Law section
- Social Services Law
Sponsors
- James Sanders Jr. State Senator, District 10
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
Same as
- A5966 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Health, 2024-05-15 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Health, 2023-01-31 First reading