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Senate Advances 48-Hour Postpartum Coverage Bill After Mother's Testimony
Summary
Senate substitute S.B. 138, setting a 48-hour baseline for postpartum insurance coverage while preserving physician-patient discretion and requiring home-care rules, moved to third reading after a mother described being discharged at 24 hours.
Senators on Feb. 9 adopted a substitute to S.B. 138 that sets a 48-hour baseline for postpartum insurance coverage while preserving medical judgment and allowing shorter stays when appropriate. Sponsor Senator Howell framed the bill as addressing so-called "drive-through deliveries," while preserving physician and patient discretion.
During committee-as-a-whole proceedings, Christine Tester, a woman who gave birth six weeks earlier,…
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