Bill Text: CA AB2129 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Immediate postpartum contraception.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 950, Statutes of 2024. [AB2129 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2129-Chaptered.html
Assembly Bill
No. 2129
CHAPTER 950
An act to add Section 1367.627 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 10123.869 to the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.
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Approved by
Governor
September 29, 2024.
Filed with
Secretary of State
September 29, 2024.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2129, Petrie-Norris.
Immediate postpartum contraception.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally regulates contractual provisions between health care service plans and health insurers and their contracting health care providers.
This bill would require a contract between a health care service plan or health insurer and a health care provider issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, to authorize a provider to separately bill for devices, implants, or professional services, or a combination thereof, associated with immediate postpartum contraception if the birth takes place in a general
acute care hospital or licensed birth center. The bill would prohibit that provider contract from considering those devices, implants, or services to be part of a payment for a general obstetric procedure. Because a violation of the bill’s requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1367.627 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:1367.627.
(a) A contract between a health care service plan and a health care provider issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, shall authorize a provider to separately bill for devices, implants, or professional services, or a combination thereof, associated with immediate postpartum contraception if the birth takes place in a general acute care hospital or licensed birth center. The provider contract shall not consider those devices, implants, or services to be part of a payment for a general obstetric procedure.(b) For purposes of this section, “immediate postpartum contraception” means the postpartum insertion of intrauterine devices or contraceptive implants performed before the enrollee is discharged from the general acute care hospital or licensed birth center and includes the devices or implants themselves.
(c) This section does not affect an enrollee’s right to directly access women’s health care services, including contraceptive
services, and informed consent.
SEC. 2.
Section 10123.869 is added to the Insurance Code, to read:10123.869.
(a) A contract between a health insurer and a health care provider issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, shall authorize a provider to separately bill for devices, implants, or professional services, or a combination thereof, associated with immediate postpartum contraception if the birth takes place in a general acute care hospital or licensed birth center. The provider contract shall not consider those devices, implants, or services to be part of a payment for a general obstetric procedure.(b) For purposes of this section, “immediate postpartum contraception” means the postpartum insertion of intrauterine devices or contraceptive implants performed before the insured is discharged from the general acute care hospital or licensed birth center and includes the devices or implants themselves.
(c) This section does not affect an insured’s right to directly access women’s health care services, including contraceptive services, and informed consent.
