AB 698

This bill requires hospitals to provide a postpartum home visit to a woman and

infant within the first seven days following discharge of the patient. The cost-free

postpartum home visit is to ensure proper recovery from childbirth and to provide

other postpartum services. The bill requires that the postpartum home visit be

provided if a patient requests it. The bill prohibits hospitals from seeking payment

from the patient for services provided pursuant to the postpartum home visit. The

bill also requires health insurance policies and self-insured governmental health

plans to provide coverage for a postpartum home visit for each birth as described in

the bill. Health insurance policies are known as disability insurance policies in the

bill.

This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and

financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.