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Introduced Session

P.L.1995, c.138 requires that health, hospital and medical service corporation contracts, individual, small employer and group health insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts delivered, issued, executed or renewed in this State, which include maternity benefits, provide coverage for a minimum of 48 hours of in-patient care following a vaginal delivery and a minimum of 96 hours of in-patient care following a cesarean section for a mother and her newborn child in a licensed health care facility. The bill provides specifically as follows: · An employer in this State who provides coverage for maternity benefits to his employees or their dependents is required to annually, and upon request of an employee at other times during the year, notify each employee whether that employee's coverage for maternity benefits is subject to the requirements of P.L.1995, c.138. · The administrator of a licensed general hospital or other birthing facility providing maternity care to a pregnant woman who has health care insurance coverage which includes maternity benefits, or a person designated by the administrator, is required, prior to the delivery date, to: -- determine if the coverage is subject to the requirements of P.L.1995, c.138; and -- if the person determines that the woman's coverage is not subject to the requirements of that law, promptly notify the woman of that fact and, if known, the duration of the inpatient care to which the woman is entitled under her insurance coverage.

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Nellie Pou (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee (on 01/12/2016)