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Assembly Bill A8144

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires health insurance contracts cover postpartum pelvic floor physical therapy

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2025-A8144 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L

2025-A8144 - Summary

Requires health insurance contracts cover postpartum pelvic floor physical therapy for new mothers.

2025-A8144 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8144
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred 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:

   Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
 (i)  of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the
 laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include,  at  minimum,  parent
 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, POSTPAR-
 TUM  PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY, and the performance of any necessary
 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
   § 2. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 5 of subsection (k) of
 section 3221 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws of
 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include,  at  minimum,  parent
 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, POSTPAR-
 TUM  PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY, and the performance of any necessary
 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
   § 3. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 4303
 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 661 of the laws of 1997,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (B)  Maternity  care  coverage  also shall include, at minimum, parent
 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, POSTPAR-
 TUM PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY, and the performance of any  necessary
 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
   §  4. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law and shall apply to policies or contracts issued, renewed,  modified,
 altered,  or  amended  on or after such date. Effective immediately, the
 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
 for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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2025-A8144A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L

2025-A8144A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires health insurance contracts cover postpartum pelvic floor physical therapy for new mothers.

2025-A8144A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8144--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
 (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of  the
 laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii)  Maternity  care  coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, POSTPAR-
 TUM PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY, and the performance of any  necessary
 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
   § 2. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 5 of subsection (k) of
 section 3221 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws of
 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii)  Maternity  care  coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, POSTPAR-
 TUM PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY, and the performance of any  necessary
 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
   § 3. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 4303
 of  the insurance law, as amended by chapter 661 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (B) Maternity care coverage also shall  include,  at  minimum,  parent
 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, POSTPAR-
 TUM  PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY, and the performance of any necessary
 maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
 policies or contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended  on
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08356-03-5

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