Essential health benefits to include prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum health care

(a) In general Section 1302(b) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18022(b)) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following: (5) Maternity and newborn care requirements (A) In general The benefits referred to in paragraph (1)(D) shall include comprehensive prenatal, labor and delivery, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum care and screenings. (B) Requirement At a minimum, the care and screenings described in subparagraph (A) shall include— (i) ultrasounds by a licensed provider; (ii) services caring for the individual relating to spontaneous pregnancy loss or spontaneous miscarriage; (iii) delivery services, including services rendered during delivery, such as anesthesiology, fetal monitoring, consultations with specialists, and services relating to postpartum health; (iv) the services required to be covered under section 2725 of the Public Health Service Act, section 711 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and section 9811 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (v) postpartum care services that are not preventive, including behavioral health services, for conditions that may have been exacerbated by pregnancy or conditions as a result of pregnancy, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity; and (vi) for legal parents of a new child who do not physically give birth to the child, behavioral health services relating to new parenthood for the 1-year period beginning on the day of the birth of the child. (C) Definition of postpartum In this paragraph, the term postpartum means the 1-year period beginning immediately after the pregnancy ends.. (b) Application The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be considered as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148). (c) Plan years The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act.