Bill Text: NJ A4011 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for home childbirth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee [A4011 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4011-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman BRITNEE N. TIMBERLAKE
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for home childbirth.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning health insurance and supplementing P.L.1997, c.192 (C.26:2S-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A carrier that offers a health benefits plan in this State shall provide coverage for costs associated with home childbirth.
b. The coverage shall be provided to the same extent as for any other health care services under the health benefits plan.
c. As used in this section:
"Carrier" means an insurance company, health service corporation, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, or health maintenance organization authorized to issue health benefits plans in this State or any entity contracted to administer health benefits in connection with the State Health Benefits Program or School Employees' Health Benefits Program.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all health benefits plans currently in effect in the State, or that are delivered, issued, executed or renewed in this State, or approved for issuance or renewal in this State by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, on or after the effective date of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill requires health insurance carriers (health, hospital and medical service corporations, health maintenance organizations and insurance companies), as well as the State and School Employees' Health Benefits Programs, to provide coverage for expenses incurred in home childbirth.
The bill takes effect immediately and applies to all health benefit plans currently in effect in the State, or that are delivered, issued, executed or renewed in this State, or approved for issuance or renewal in this State by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, on or after the effective date of the bill.
