N.Y. Social Services Law § 366-g: Newborn enrollment for medical assistance

§ 366-g. Newborn enrollment for medical assistance. 1. Each hospital

licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law shall

report to the department of health, or such other entity designated by

the department of health, in such format as the department of health

shall provide, each live birth of a child to a woman receiving medical

assistance on the date of the birth. Such reports shall be made within

five business days of the birth and shall include data identifying the

mother and child.

2. Each hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of the public

health law, upon discharge after delivery of a child, shall notify, in

plain language and in such manner as the department of health shall

provide, each mother in receipt of medical assistance that such child is

deemed to be enrolled in the medical assistance program regardless of

his or her receipt of a medical assistance identification card or client

identification number or other proof of the child's eligibility, and may

access care, services and supplies in accordance with this title and

other applicable laws.

3. The commissioner of health shall establish a procedure to ensure

that every child born to a mother who is receiving medical assistance on

the date of the child's birth is automatically enrolled in the medical

assistance program, assigned a client identification number, and issued

an active medical assistance identification card, as soon as possible,

but in no event later than ten business days from the receipt of the

report required pursuant to subdivision one of this section.

4. (a) Consistent with the provisions of section three hundred

sixty-six of this title, a child under the age of one year whose mother

is receiving medical assistance, or whose mother was receiving medical

assistance on the date of the child's birth, who is presented to a

medical assistance provider, as defined in section three hundred

sixty-six-d of this title, for care, shall be deemed to be enrolled in

the medical assistance program regardless of the issuance of a medical

assistance identification card or client identification number to such

child or other proof of the child's eligibility.

(b) A medical assistance provider that furnishes medical assistance as

defined in section three hundred sixty-five-a of this title, to a child

described in paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be eligible for

medical assistance reimbursement for such assistance regardless of

whether the child has been issued a medical assistance identification

card, client identification number or other proof of eligibility.

Reimbursement under this section shall be in accordance with the

provisions of this title, including, as appropriate, section 364-j of

this title and all other applicable laws, rules, regulations and

administrative directions.