Pennsylvania House Passes Bill Requiring Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives

Published on June 25, 2024

The Democrat-led Pennsylvania House passed a bill on June 25 requiring health insurers—including Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program—to pay for birth control medicine, devices, and emergency contraceptive drugs, also known as the morning after pill, without a cost-sharing requirement. House Bill 1140 next goes to the Pennsylvania Senate. The Contraceptives Access for All Act codifies into law a policy that’s already in practice in Pennsylvania. The bill was sponsored by Democrat state Rep. Leanne Krueger. “There’s currently no protection in state law for contraceptive access, and we need to make sure that Pennsylvanians have access to the medications that they need,” Ms. Krueger told her colleagues from the House floor. “We’ve worked very hard over the past year to negotiate the language of this bill with stakeholders.”...

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