A7681 (2025-26 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 Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-04-04
- Same as
- S940
- Law section
- Social Services Law
Sponsors
- Vivian E. Cook Assembly Member, District 32
Co-sponsors
- Alex Bores Assembly Member, District 73
- Alicia Hyndman Assembly Member, District 29
Heard in committee
- Health NY State Assembly committee
Same as
- S940 (2025-26 session) NY State bill