An Act relating to health insurance; defining terms; requiring health insurance to provide coverage for all services related to pregnancy, postpartum, and newborn care rendered by certain persons; requiring coverage for necessary equipment and medical supplies; requiring coverage for lactation consultants; requiring coverage for recommended breast pumps, breast pump supplies, breastfeeding supplies, and feeding aides; requiring postpartum services to be covered for not less than one year after birth; prohibiting cost-sharing requirements; clarifying what is not limited; directing Oklahoma Health Care Authority to ensure SoonerCare provides coverage; providing for sales and use tax exempted items; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.
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HB 3286 requires health insurance coverage of pregnancy, postpartum, and newborn care services provided by certified nurse-midwives, licensed professional midwives, and perinatal doulas, including home births, home visits, and support during labor or miscarriage.
The measure requires coverage for the home-birth and postpartum recovery equipment and supplies, plus lactation consultant home visits and whatever breast pump, pump parts, breastfeeding supplies, and feeding aides are recommended. All coverage must be provided with zero cost-sharing, and postpartum services have to be covered for at least one year after birth.
It also creates a sales and use tax exemption for breast pumps and related supplies.
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