Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 102 amends the Insurance Code by adding the Lee Alexandria Hanley Act, relating to insurance coverage for post-delivery care following the birth of a child. The act requires health benefit plans that provide maternity benefits to include coverage for inpatient care for a mother and her newborn. Coverage is to provide a minimum 48 hours in a health care facility following an uncomplicated vaginal delivery and 96 hours following an uncomplicated caesarean section delivery. Health benefit plans are prohibited from modifying the plan below the minimum requirements, offering incentives to decrease coverage, refusing a doctor's request for inpatient care, reducing payments or reimbursements for inpatient care, and penalizing doctors for recommending inpatient care. The act also provides that post-delivery care can be provided at the mother's home or other health care facility.