To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to increase health insurance access for individuals placing their newborns for adoption.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires group health plans and health insurance coverage to enroll certain pregnant or recently postpartum individuals who are placing a newborn for adoption for limited maternity and behavioral health benefits upon request by a covered prospective adoptive parent.
Who Benefits and How
Pregnant or recently postpartum individuals placing a child for adoption could gain limited pregnancy, postpartum, mental health, and substance-use coverage through the adoptive parent's health plan or coverage.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Health plans and insurers would have to provide the new enrollment pathway and covered benefits, increasing plan administration and coverage costs.
Key Provisions
- Creates a required enrollment pathway for qualifying pregnant or postpartum individuals placing a newborn for adoption.
- Limits the required benefits to pregnancy-related, postpartum, and mental health or substance-use services for a defined coverage period.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires group health plans and health insurance coverage to enroll certain pregnant or recently postpartum individuals who are placing a newborn for adoption for limited maternity and behavioral health benefits upon request by a covered prospective adoptive parent.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
Requires group health plans and health insurance coverage to enroll certain pregnant or recently postpartum individuals who are placing a newborn for adoption for limited maternity and behavioral health benefits upon request by a covered prospective adoptive parent.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Pregnant or recently postpartum individuals placing a child for adoption
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Group health plans and insurers required to provide the new limited-benefit enrollment option
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMs. Van Duyne introduced the following bill; which was referred …
Stakeholder Effects
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Pregnant or recently postpartum individuals placing a newborn for adoption who gain limited coverage
Group health plans and insurers required to provide the new enrollment option and benefits
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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