Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act

This bill would ban cost-sharing for care related to pregnancy and birth. That means no copays, coinsurance, or deductibles for prenatal visits, childbirth, newborn care, care around delivery, and postpartum care, as described in the bill’s section on “No cost-sharing” for these services .

The goal is to lower out-of-pocket costs for families during pregnancy and after birth, so people can get needed checkups and treatment without worrying about extra fees .

• Who is affected: People getting prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, or postpartum care; and the plans that would otherwise charge cost-sharing for those services .
• What changes: Cost-sharing (like copays and deductibles) would not be allowed for those services .
• When: The text provided describes the policy but does not state an effective date .