Prepare for more hospital charges and insurance premium hikes.
Mandates have that effect, and much more.
What are the moral implications of requiring hospitals to offer IUDs to "certain patients"? Does this refer to Medicaid patients? If so, is such discrimination constitutional?
Thursday, September 26, 2024 1:30 p.m.
AGENDA
SB 973 Sen. Cavanagh Insurance; health insurers; coverage for certain contraception; require.
SB 974 Sen. Irwin Human services; medical services; coverage for contraception and emergency contraception; require.
SB 987 Sen. McMorrow Insurance; health insurers; coverage for inpatient long-acting reversible contraceptives; require.
SB 988 Sen. McMorrow Human services; medical services; coverage for immediate postpartum intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants and associated anesthesia services; provide for.
SB 1006 Sen. McMorrow Health facilities; hospitals; hospitals stocking intrauterine devices; require and require hospitals to offer intrauterine devices to certain patients.
And any other business properly before the committee.
Michigan Senate Bill 1006 requires that Maternity Wards of all religious affiliations stock and provide contraceptives to desiring patients.
A hospital that operates a maternity unit shall ensure that an individual who is giving birth in the hospital has the option, if not medically contraindicated, of having an intrauterine device implanted after delivery and before the individual is discharged. A hospital shall ensure that a sufficient number of intrauterine devices are in stock and available at the hospital to meet the requirements of this section.
https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/Senate/pdf/2024-SIB-1006.pdf
The short Bill, which was supported in its Health Policy committee meeting this past Thursday, makes no exemption for Catholic Hospitals which might have a religious dispute with furnishing contraceptives to patients. This may prove to create a dispute between the Legislature and religiously affiliated Healthcare Systems.
Meeting Notes for Thursday's committee: https://committees.senate.michigan.gov/committees/ViewDocument/?apn=2023_2024_session%2Fcommittee%2Fsenate%2Fstanding%2Fhealth_policy%2Fmeetings%2F2024-09-26-1%2Fdocuments%2Ftestimony%2FAmy%20Zaagman%20MCMCH%20Support%20SBs%20973%20974%20987%20988%201006.pdf
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