Bill > HB298

Introduced Session

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; prohibit cost sharing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization contracted to provide Medicaid benefits to comply with new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on long-acting reversible contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; require insurers of health benefit plans to submit information relating to contraceptive coverage to the commssioner; require the commissioner to report information relating to contraceptive coverage to the Legslative Research Commission; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2022.

AI Summary

Josie Raymond (D)*,  Tina Bojanowski (D),  Kelly Flood (D),  Derrick Graham (D),  Joni Jenkins (D),  Nima Kulkarni (D),  Patti Minter (D),  Ruth Ann Palumbo (D),  Attica Scott (D),  Cherlynn Stevenson (D),  Pamela Stevenson (D),  Susan Westrom (D),  Lisa Willner (D), 

to Committee on Committees (H) (on 02/02/2021)

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