HR 3762
Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
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Bill overview
The Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act expands coverage for prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum healthcare. It mandates that essential health benefits, including comprehensive care and screenings, be included in health plans. Furthermore, the bill prohibits group health plans and health insurance issuers from imposing cost-sharing requirements for these specific healthcare services, aligning with requirements for qualified health plans under the Affordable Care Act.
Key provisions
- Expands essential health benefits to include comprehensive prenatal, labor and delivery, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum care and screenings.
- Prohibits cost-sharing requirements for prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum health care.
- Updates the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to reflect these changes.
- Applies to plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment.
- Addresses coverage requirements under the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
- Defines postpartum care as the 1-year period following pregnancy.
- Includes behavioral health services for new parents during the postpartum period.
- Clarifies that legal parents of a new child are covered for behavioral health services.
Who is affected
- Individuals seeking prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, or postpartum healthcare
- Health insurance issuers
- Group health plans
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Becca [D-VT-At Large] Balint
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 3762
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To prevent cost-sharing requirements for prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, or postpartum health care.
This Act may be cited as the Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
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by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
The benefits referred to in paragraph (1)(D) shall include comprehensive prenatal, labor and delivery, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum care and screenings.
ultrasounds by a licensed provider;
services caring for the individual relating to spontaneous pregnancy loss or spontaneous miscarriage;
delivery services, including services rendered during delivery, such as anesthesiology, fetal monitoring, consultations with specialists, and services relating to postpartum health;
the services required to be covered under section 2725 of the Public Health Service Act, section 711 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and section 9811 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
postpartum care services that are not preventive, including behavioral health services, for conditions that may have been exacerbated by pregnancy or conditions as a result of pregnancy, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity; and
for legal parents of a new child who do not physically give birth to the child, behavioral health services relating to new parenthood for the 1-year period beginning on the day of the birth of the child.
In this paragraph, the term postpartum means the 1-year period beginning immediately after the pregnancy ends.
The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be considered as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148).
The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
Part D of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg–111 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
For plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment of the
Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
, a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall provide coverage for the benefits described in section 1302(b)(1)(D) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to the same extent that qualified health plans (as defined in section 1301 of such Act) are required to provide coverage for such benefits, and shall not impose any cost-sharing requirements for such benefits.In this section, the term cost-sharing has the meaning given the term in section 1302(c)(3) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
For plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment of the
Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
, a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage shall provide coverage for the benefits described in section 1302(b)(1)(D) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to the same extent that qualified health plans (as defined in section 1301 of such Act) are required to provide coverage for such benefits, and shall not impose any cost-sharing requirements for such benefits.The table of contents in section 1 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 725 the following:
For plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment of the
Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
, a group health plan shall provide coverage for the benefits described in section 1302(b)(1)(D) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to the same extent that qualified health plans (as defined in section 1301 of such Act) are required to provide coverage for such benefits, and shall not impose any cost-sharing requirements for such benefits.The table of sections for subchapter B of chapter 100 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
This section shall be considered as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148).