Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: coverage of infertility services under self-insured governmental health plans and health policies and plans offered to state employees, and granting rule-making authority.
Maternal and infant care Public employee — Group insurance
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires self-insured governmental health plans and health care
coverage plans offered by the state to its employees that cover medical or hospital
expenses to cover diagnosis of and treatment for infertility and standard fertility
preservation services. Coverage required under the bill must include at least four
completed egg retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers in accordance with certain
guidelines and single embryo transfer is allowed when recommended and medically
appropriate. Policies and plans are prohibited from imposing an exclusion,
limitation, or other restriction on coverage of medications of which the bill requires
coverage that is not imposed on any other prescription medications covered under
the policy or plan. Similarly, policies and plans may not impose any exclusion,
limitation, cost-sharing requirement, benefit maximum, waiting period or other
restriction on diagnosis, treatment, or services for which coverage is required under
the bill that is different from any exclusion, limitation, cost-sharing requirement,
benefit maximum, waiting period or other restriction imposed on benefits for other
services. Also, policies and plans may not impose an exclusion, limitation, or other
restriction on diagnosis, treatment, or services for which coverage is required under
the bill on the basis that an insured person participates in fertility services provided
by or to a third party.
This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and
financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.
Sponsors
Full history
- Dec 6, 2023 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Emerson, Vining, Bare, Andraca, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Myers, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Shelton, Sinicki and Stubbs; cosponsored by Senators Roys, Agard, Carpenter, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Pfaff, Spreitzer, Taylor, Wirch and Smith
- Dec 6, 2023 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance
- Dec 11, 2023 · Assembly
Representative Shankland added as a coauthor
- Dec 12, 2023 · Assembly
Commissioner of Insurance report received pursuant to s.601.423(2), Wisconsin Statutes
- Dec 12, 2023 · Assembly
Representative Baldeh added as a coauthor
- Dec 22, 2023 · Assembly
Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- Mar 7, 2024 · Assembly
Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor
- Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1