Bill Text: WV SB792 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Providing Medicaid coverage for postpartum health care
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-14 - To Health and Human Resources [SB792 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB792-Introduced.html
FISCAL NOTE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 792
By Senator Chapman
[Introduced February 14, 2024; referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-2-14, relating to Medicaid coverage for postpartum health care.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. commissioner of human services; powers, duties and resposibilities generally.
§9-2-14. Coverage for postpartum healthcare.
Pregnant women and new parents up to twenty-four (24) months postpartum, and children up to age two shall be eligible for participation in the West Virginia Medicaid Program if:
(1) They have family income up to but not exceeding one hundred and eighty-five percent (185%) of the nonfarm income official poverty guidelines as promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States as revised annually; and
(2) They are otherwise eligible for the program.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide Medicaid coverage for postpartum healthcare.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
