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Fertility coverage bill spurs emotional testimony from patients and objections from insurers and faith-based providers
Summary
Senate Bill 535 would require employer and individual health plans to cover a wide set of fertility and reproductive-preservation services; patient advocates and medical experts urged passage while insurers and faith-based providers raised cost, scope and religious-liberty concerns.
Senate Bill 535, heard by the Senate Committee on Health Care on April 3, would require employer and individual health plans in Oregon to reimburse for a range of fertility treatments and preservation services, including egg retrievals, embryo transfers and storage, intrauterine insemination and related diagnostics and medications.
Proponents ranged from physicians to patients and reproductive-health advocates. Dr. Paula Amato, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University and immediate past president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, testified in support and called infertility a disease that carries psychosocial burdens and health disparities. She noted that 24…
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