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Advocates back bill to remove cost-sharing for post-pregnancy mental health care and extend coverage after pregnancy loss
Summary
Supporters from advocacy groups and families urged the committee to require insurers, MassHealth and the GIC to cover post-pregnancy mental-health care without copays or deductibles, including for people after miscarriage or stillbirth; witnesses asked the legislature to treat postpartum mental health like other postnatal care.
A coalition of advocates, parents and clinical leaders urged the Joint Committee on Financial Services to report favorably on H 13 14 / S 8 23, legislation that would require coverage of post-pregnancy mental-health care without copays, deductibles or other cost-sharing across commercial insurance, MassHealth and the Group Insurance Commission.
Senator Brendan Crighton (testimony delivered by proxy) and speakers from the Mind the Gap…
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