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S 6650 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to value-based care for maternity coverage

Summary
Requires contracts for insurance and medical assistance to provide value-based care for maternity coverage; defines value-based care as an arrangement that financially rewards certain positive outcomes and financially penalizes certain negative outcomes.
Issues: ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareMandates value-based maternity coverage requiring positive outcome incentives, aligning with improving care quality and patient outcomes per healthcare support indicators.92% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentBill mandates value-based maternity coverage in insurance contracts, expanding worker benefits and improving healthcare access for employees during maternity, aligning with employment standards.95% confidence
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 19, 2025 Last action Feb 20, 2026
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What changed between versions

S6650 → S6650A · 4 edits
MODERATE
This bill was amended to expand its scope by adding the social services law to the list of laws being amended, and to clarify that federally qualified health centers providing maternity services must be included in value-based care arrangements. The amendment also corrected formatting issues and updated committee status information.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded to include the social services law in addition to the insurance law, public health law, and civil service law. The applicability of value-based care requirements was extended to include federally qualified health centers providing maternity services.
SCOPE

Added the social services law to the list of laws being amended by this bill.

REQUIREMENT

Changed requirements to explicitly include federally qualified health centers providing maternity services in value-based care arrangements alongside hospitals and birthing centers.

TECHNICAL

Updated bill title from S 6650 to S 6650-A and added committee status information showing the bill was discharged, amended, and recommitted.

Corrected a typo in the bill title where 'Assembly' was split across lines with inconsistent spacing.

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Actions timeline

Total actions
4
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Amendments
2
Feb 20, 2026
Upper · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 6650A
upper
Feb 20, 2026
Upper · Passed
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE
upper
Jan 7, 2026
Committee
REFERRED TO INSURANCE
upper
Mar 19, 2025
Committee
REFERRED TO INSURANCE
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Party
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Photo of Lea Webb
Lea Webb
DDemocratic/Working Families
NY
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