Assembly Bill A7681

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A7681 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S940
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5047
2011-2012: A5612, A6983
2013-2014: A2424
2015-2016: A7110
2017-2018: A5359
2019-2020: A6381, S9111
2021-2022: A3386, S916
2023-2024: A5966, S1241

2025-A7681 (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.

2025-A7681 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   7681
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. COOK, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, HYNDMAN, GLICK, WOERNER,
   DE LOS SANTOS,  SEAWRIGHT,  SIMONE, SIMON, BORES -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A. COLTON, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
   tee 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.
                                                            LBD03095-01-5

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