HR 2854
105th Congress
House
Health
Ambulatory care
Child health
Childbirth
Commerce
Employee health benefits
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Hospital care
Infants
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Maternal health services
Midwives
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Obstetrics
Physicians
To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group health plans and group and individual health insurance coverage to provide post-delivery follow-up care for mothers and newborns discharged less than 48 hours following a vaginal delivery or less than 96 following a delivery by cesarean section.
Introduced: November 6, 1997
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8 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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Became law
Nov 25, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Nov 14, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Nov 13, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov 6, 1997
Referred to House Ways and Means
Nov 6, 1997
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Nov 6, 1997
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Nov 6, 1997
Referred to House Commerce
Nov 6, 1997
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code to require that, when an attending provider and the mother decide to discharge the mother or her newborn prior to specified minimum inpatient periods following delivery, the group health plan or insurer offering coverage provide coverage for timely post-delivery care in any of specified settings, as selected by the mother. Applies the requirement to coverage in the individual market under specified provisions of the PHSA.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.