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Massachusetts Bill Requiring Contraceptive Coverage (H 948)
This law was last updated on Nov 13, 2018
This law is Pro–Choice
Number
H 948
Status
Failed to Pass
Proposed
Jan 20, 2015
Sponsors
Co-sponsors: 51
Primary Sponsors: 2
Total Sponsors: 53
Full Bill Text
H 948 would require insurance carriers to provide all contraceptive methods without a co-pay.
Under the bill, health care service plans would be required to provide coverage for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products available over-the-counter. Health plans would need to include at least one therapeutically equivalent of a contraceptive drug, device or product that is FDA-approved, if available. If a therapeutically equivalent version is not available or is deemed medically inadvisable by the enrollee’s provider, a health care service plan would need to provide coverage for an alternate prescribed therapeutically equivalent version of the contraceptive drug, device or product.
H 948 also requires coverage for:
- voluntary sterilization procedures;
- patient education and counseling on contraception; and
- follow-up services related to the drugs, devices, products and procedures covered under this provision, including, but not limited to, management of side effects, counseling for continued adherence and device insertion and removal.
Health care service plans would not be able to impose a deductible, coinsurance, copayment or any other cost-sharing requirement. Medicaid beneficiaries would not be subject to any cost sharing.
People
Co-sponsor
- Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr.
- Frank Smizik
- Thomas Stanley
- Jonathan Hecht
- Christine Barber
- Gailanne Cariddi
- Sarah Peake
- Sean Garballey
- Mary Keefe
- Brendan Crighton
- Paul Brodeur
- James Eldridge
- James O'Day
- Danielle Gregoire
- Jay Kaufman
- John Lawn
- Aaron Vega
- Kay Khan
- Ruth Balser
- Paul McMurtry
- Marjorie Decker
- Paul Mark
- Jay Livingstone
- Michael Moore
- Peter Kocot
- Cory Atkins
- Lori Ehrlich
- Stephen Kulik
- Michelle Dubois
- Paul Heroux
- Kenneth Gordon
- Denise Provost
- Ann-Margaret Ferrante
- Jennifer Benson
- Jason Lewis
- David Linsky
- Harriette Chandler
- Kate Hogan
- Steven Ultrino
- Carmine Gentile
- Jose Tosado
- Harold Naughton
- John Mahoney
- Chris Walsh
- Alice Peisch
- David Rogers
- Kevin Honan
- Ellen Story
- Carole Fiola
- Michael Day
- Elizabeth Malia
Primary Sponsor
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