Child health insurance program-prenatal coverage.

WORKING DRAFT
2010
STATE OF
WYOMING
10LSO-0307

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0121

Child health insurance program-prenatal coverage
.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Esquibel, K. and Senator(s) Elliott

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
the child health insurance program; providing for a state plan amendment to provide prenatal care to pregnant women, as specified;
providing
a definition
; providing appropriations;

and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 35
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25
‑
104
is
amended to read:

35
‑
25
‑
104.

Private insurance program benefits.

A child eligible for services under this act shall receive benefits developed by the health benefits committee established under W.S. 35
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25
‑
105 that include cost sharing factors, not to exceed the maximum allowable under Public Law 105
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33, exclusions and limitations. The benefit package shall include, at a minimum, inpatient and outpatient hospital services, physician services,
laboratory and x-ray services,
well-baby and well-child care including age appropriate immunizations and the additional services of prescription drug coverage, vision coverage and dental coverage which will include preventive and basic services developed by the health benefits committee.

The
benefit package shall
include a
prenatal care
benefit option pursuant to 42 C.F.R. section 457.10 and provide for a global payment to health care providers for prenatal, perinatal and postpartum services.
For purposes of the prenatal care benefit option, "child" includes an individual under the age of nineteen (19) including the period from conception to birth.

Section 2.

There is appropriated
eight
hundred
two
thousand dollars ($
802
,000.00) from the general fund and
one million four hundred eighty-nine thousand
dollars ($
1,489
,000.00) in federal funds to the department of health. This appropriation shall be for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2010. This appropriation shall only be expended for the purpose of providing prenatal care under the child health insurance program pursuant to this act. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2012. This appropriation shall be included in the department's 2013-2014 standard biennial budget request.

Section
3
.

This act is effective July 1, 2010.

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