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Advocates urge Vermont House Health Care Committee to adopt House Bill 302 to expand fertility coverage
Summary
On April 10 advocates, patients and providers told the House Health Care Committee that House Bill 302 would expand private and Medicaid coverage for fertility treatment, diagnostic care and medically necessary fertility preservation. Witnesses described financial, emotional and access barriers and asked lawmakers to take up the bill next year.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Advocates, patients and medical providers told the Vermont House Health Care Committee on April 10 that House Bill 302 should be enacted to require private insurers and Medicaid to cover fertility treatment, diagnostic care and medically necessary fertility preservation.
Kate Weldon LeBlanc, executive director of All Paths Family Building, told the committee that the bill “is pro family and joyful legislation” and said advocates are asking lawmakers to take it up next year because the measure is not advancing this session. The bill’s lead sponsor is Representative Debash Bartley.
House Bill 302 would require private and public insurers in Vermont to cover fertility treatments, diagnostic services and medically necessary fertility preservation. Witnesses said the proposal aims to be inclusive of LGBTQIA families, to cover those who experience recurrent pregnancy loss as well as people who cannot conceive, and to allow medically indicated preimplantation genetic testing in…
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