Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act

The Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act would eliminate cost-sharing requirements—such as copays, deductibles, and coinsurance—for prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum health care services under group health plans and individual health insurance coverage. It amends the Affordable Care Act to explicitly include comprehensive maternity and newborn care as essential health benefits, covering services like ultrasounds, delivery care, postpartum behavioral health, and care for pregnancy loss, with postpartum defined as the one-year period after pregnancy ends. The provisions apply to plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment and are designed to apply across…

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