{"id":121110,"date":"2026-02-03T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121110\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:48:10","slug":"new-york-looks-for-first-in-nation-fertility-coverage-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121110\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Looks for First-in-Nation Fertility Coverage Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Democrats are gaining ground in pushing the Empire State to be the first in the US to require commercial insurers to more broadly cover fertility services. <\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Michelle Hinchey (D) has sponsored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/S4497\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legislation<\/a> (S. 4497) that would compel employer-sponsored insurance plans to include as a standard benefit fertility services such as egg and sperm freezing, which she argues would widely expand access to reproductive health care. <\/p>\n<p>Hinchey said fertility preservation services are currently inaccessible to residents unless they are considered infertile because of a medical treatment such as cancer, independently wealthy, or work for a private company &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Democrats are gaining ground in pushing the Empire State to be the first in the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17447,53102,78,7050,9,24,55,54,56,53103,53104,21706],"class_list":["post-121110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-employee-benefits","tag-health-insurance-premium-rates","tag-insurance-coverage","tag-medicaid","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-reproductive-health","tag-state-health-care-legislation","tag-variable-interest-entities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}