HB627
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover perinatal mood…
Introduced: February 18, 2025
Last action: February 26, 2025
Plain-language summary
This bill requires most Kentucky health insurance plans — including Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, private health plans, and state employee and university employee plans — to cover screenings for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, such as postpartum depression, as part of routine well-baby or well-child visits. These screenings would be billed as a child health service. Most coverage requirements would take effect for plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. Who it may affect: new and expectant mothers, infants, families enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP, state employees, and employees of Kentucky public universities and colleges.
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