Bill > S2383

This bill mandates that health insurance policies, including those from nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations, and health maintenance organizations, must cover services provided by licensed certified lactation counselors for childbearing families and infants up to twelve months old, starting January 1, 2027. A licensed certified lactation counselor is defined as a professional certified by the department of health who provides assessment, evaluation, treatment, education, and consultation for lactation care. The bill prohibits insurers from requiring supervision, signatures, or referrals from other healthcare providers for these services, unless such requirements also apply to other healthcare providers, and prevents patients or insurers from paying for duplicate services. Furthermore, insurers will be required to report annual utilization and cost information for these services to the office of the health insurance commissioner. This coverage requirement does not apply to specific types of insurance such as hospital confinement indemnity, disability income, accident-only, long-term care, Medicare supplement, limited benefit health, specified disease indemnity, or policies covering sickness or accidental death.

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