HB299: AN ACT relating to reproductive health services.

Legislative Summary

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; prohibit cost sharing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; amend KRS 164.2871 to require state postsecondary self-insured employer group plans to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on long-acting reversible contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; require insurers of health benefit plans to submit information relating to contraceptive coverage to the insurance commissioner; require the commissioner to report information relating to contraceptive coverage to the Legislative Research Commission; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.