S940 • 2025

Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth

Healthcare

Active

The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor: James Sanders Jr.
Last action: 2026-04-22
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth

Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth 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.

What This Bill Does

Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth 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.

Limits and Unknowns

This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

2026-04-22 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-04-22 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-04-22 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2026-02-26 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-02-25 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-02-24 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.384
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-05-01 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-04-30 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-04-29 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.883
2025-01-08 Senate
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Establishes mandatory minimum medicaid coverage for hospital confinement for childbirth
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.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           940

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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. (A) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE  SHALL  ALSO  INCLUDE  INPATIENT  HOSPITAL
     4  COVERAGE FOR MOTHER AND FOR NEWBORN FOR AT LEAST FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AFTER
     5  CHILDBIRTH  FOR  ANY DELIVERY OTHER THAN A CAESAREAN SECTION, AND FOR AT
     6  LEAST NINETY-SIX HOURS AFTER A CAESAREAN SECTION.
     7    (B) MATERNITY CARE COVERAGE SHALL ALSO INCLUDE, AT A  MINIMUM,  PARENT
     8  EDUCATION,  ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING IN BREAST OR BOTTLE FEEDING, AND THE
     9  PERFORMANCE OF ANY NECESSARY MATERNAL AND NEWBORN CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS.
    10    (C) A MOTHER SHALL HAVE THE OPTION TO BE DISCHARGED EARLIER  THAN  THE
    11  TIME  PERIODS  ESTABLISHED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. IN SUCH
    12  CASE, THE INPATIENT HOSPITAL COVERAGE MUST INCLUDE  AT  LEAST  ONE  HOME
    13  CARE  VISIT,  WHICH SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO, RATHER THAN IN LIEU OF, ANY
    14  HOME HEALTH CARE COVERAGE OTHERWISE AVAILABLE.  THE  MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE
    15  PROGRAM  MUST  COVER  THE  HOME CARE VISIT WHICH MAY BE REQUESTED AT ANY
    16  TIME WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS OF THE TIME OF DELIVERY (NINETY-SIX  HOURS
    17  IN  THE CASE OF A CAESAREAN SECTION) AND SHALL BE DELIVERED WITHIN TWEN-
    18  TY-FOUR HOURS, (I) AFTER DISCHARGE, OR (II) OF THE TIME OF THE  MOTHER'S
    19  REQUEST, WHICHEVER IS LATER.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  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