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House Journal: Page 2149: Wednesday, May 1, 1996

 3     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 4   clause and inserting the following:
 5     "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  514C.11  POSTDELIVERY
 6   BENEFITS AND CARE.
 7     1.  Notwithstanding section 514C.6, a person who
 8   provides an individual or group policy of accident or
 9   health insurance or individual or group hospital or
10   health care service contract issued pursuant to
11   chapter 509, 514, or 514A or an individual or group
12   health maintenance organization contract issued and
13   regulated under chapter 514B, which is delivered,
14   amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 1996, and
15   which provides maternity benefits, which are not
16   limited to complications of pregnancy, or newborn care
17   benefits, shall not terminate inpatient benefits or
18   require discharge of a mother or the newborn from a
19   hospital following delivery earlier than determined to
20   be medically appropriate by the attending physician
21   after consultation with the mother and in accordance
22   with guidelines adopted by rule by the commissioner.
23   The guidelines adopted by rule shall be consistent
24   with or may adopt by reference the guidelines for
25   perinatal care established by the American academy of
26   pediatrics and the American college of obstetricians
27   and gynecologists.
28     2.  When performing utilization review of inpatient
29   hospital services related to maternity and newborn
30   care, including but not limited to length of
31   postdelivery stay, any person who provides an
32   individual or group policy of accident or health
33   insurance or individual or group hospital or health
34   care service contract issued pursuant to chapter 509,
35   514, or 514A, or an individual or group health
36   maintenance organization contract issued and regulated
37   under chapter 514B, shall use the most recent
38   guidelines for perinatal care established by the
39   American academy of pediatrics and the American
40   college of obstetricians and gynecologists."
41     2.  Title page, by striking lines 2 and 3 and
42   inserting the following:  "and newborns."
Metcalf of Polk offered the following amendment H-6087, to the
Senate amendment H-5821 filed by Metcalf, Martin and Doderer
from the floor and moved its adoption:

H-6087

 1     Amend the Senate amendment, H-5821, to House File
 2   2369, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House,
 3   as follows:
 4     1.  Page 1, line 11, by inserting after the figure
 5   "509," the following:  "509A,".
 6     2.  Page 1, line 27, by striking the word
 7   "gynecologists." and inserting the following:

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