Category: Pregnancy
Company covered IUD insertion but not their removal. The state ruled plans with comprehensive prescription coverage must cover contraceptives–and the services associated with their removal.
Women who have private insurance plans can now get any contraceptive, including sterilization procedures, with the insurance plan picking up the entire cost.
When it comes to private insurance, including employer-based policies, 77 percent of people said it should cover all or some of the cost of oral contraceptives.
German health authorities have linked the E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 and sickened 1,700 people across Europe to locally grown bean sprouts, the European press is reporting today.
Republicans want to slash funds for family planning clinics and eliminate federal support for Planned Parenthood, a major provider of reproductive health care in the U.S.
Is health insurance coverage of infertility treatments an essential benefit to help people manage a medical disorder?
Or is it a life-enhancing benefit, nice to have perhaps but not essential because it doesn’t sustain a person’s life?
If the cuts in Medicaid reimbursements rates are not reversed by the Legislature, additional lay-offs will occur and more than 100,000 patients may lose access to care, officials say.
Your hospital may be in your health plan’s network but its neonatal intensive care unit staff may not, putting you at risk for huge medical bills if your child is premature or needs special care.
The influenza vaccine can not only protect pregnant women against the flu, it can also protect their newborn infants, health officials say.
Most individual polices don’t cover maternity care,
Since 1989, when the state’s rate peaked at 96 pregnancies per 1,000 teenaged women, the rate has halved to 46.6 per 1,000 last year.
Even after falling a record low, U.S. teen birth rates are still 33% higher than New Zealand’s, the developed country with the next highest rate.
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