S6812 (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 similar 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
- 2024-01-03
- In committee
- Health
- Introduced
- 2023-05-10
- Law section
- Social Services Law
Sponsors
- Kevin S. Parker State Senator, District 21
Heard in committee
- Health NY State Senate committee