STATE OF NEW YORK
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4917
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring postpartum
pelvic floor physical therapy be covered under maternity care
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
2 (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the
3 laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
4 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
5 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
6 tum pelvic floor physical therapy, and the performance of any necessary
7 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
8 § 2. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 5 of subsection (k) of
9 section 3221 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws of
10 1996, is amended to read as follows:
11 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
12 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
13 tum pelvic floor physical therapy, and the performance of any necessary
14 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
15 § 3. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 4303
16 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 661 of the laws of 1997, is
17 amended to read as follows:
18 (B) Maternity care coverage also shall include, at minimum, parent
19 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
20 tum pelvic floor physical therapy, and the performance of any necessary
21 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
22 § 4. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
23 law and shall apply to policies or contracts issued, renewed, modified,
24 altered, or amended on or after such date. Effective immediately, the
25 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
26 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
27 to be made and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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