HB414: AN ACT relating to perinatal palliative care.

Legislative Summary

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on perinatal palliative care; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act of 2025; direct that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued, renewed, effective, or delivered on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department of Insurance to obtain federal approval if necessary; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.