The Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act would add comprehensive prenatal, childbirth, newborn, and postpartum care to essential health benefits. It would require group health plans and individual or group health insurance to cover these services without cost-sharing. Covered care would include ultrasounds, care for pregnancy loss, delivery services, and certain postpartum behavioral and physical health care. Postpartum care is defined as the year after pregnancy ends. The bill is in progress and has been referred to a Senate committee.
If enacted, the bill would prevent covered people from being charged cost-sharing for the listed pregnancy, birth, newborn, and postpartum benefits. It also includes behavioral health services for legal parents who do not give birth, for one year after the child’s birth. The requirements would apply to plan years beginning on or after enactment.
The bill text provides no estimate of costs to health plans or insurers. It would prohibit cost-sharing for the covered benefits.
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