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Read. Follow. Verify.Kentucky HB 386 requires health plans and Medicaid to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screenings for parents during well-child visits
Last action · January 22, 2026: to Banking & Insurance (H)Sponsors: Anne Donworth and 6 others
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What This Bill Proposed
AN ACT relating to coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings.
- Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are common complications during pregnancy and the postpartum period that affect both maternal well-being and infant development. context
- The Kentucky General Assembly regularly considers legislation modifying health insurance mandates and Medicaid benefits for state residents. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Parents and legal guardians of children under age two
Eligible to receive covered perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings during their child's well-child or Medicaid visits without cost sharing.
Health benefit plan issuers
Required to include coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings for eligible parents and legal guardians without cost-sharing under applicable health plans.
Department for Medicaid Services
Must allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings for accompanying parents or legal guardians to be claimed as a service for the child under Medicaid.
Key Facts
- The Department for Medicaid Services and contracted managed care organizations must allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings for any accompanying parent or legal guardian of a covered child under two years old to be claimed as a service for the child.
- Kentucky's preventive health insurance program for children under Title XXI must include coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings for accompanying parents or legal guardians of beneficiaries under two years of age without copayment, deductible, coinsurance, or premium.
- Commercial health plans offering well-child or well-baby visits must include coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings for accompanying parents or legal guardians of covered children under two years of age without cost sharing.
- If screening mandates cause a health plan to fail to qualify as a High Deductible Health Plan under federal tax law, the requirement does not apply until the minimum deductible is satisfied.
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- Self-insured employer group health plans provided by state postsecondary education institutions and state employee health benefit plans under KRS 18A.225 are required to incorporate the new perinatal screening coverage.
- Sections 3, 5, and 6 of the Act apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027.
- The Cabinet for Health and Family Services or Department for Medicaid Services must request necessary federal approvals within 90 days of the effective date to prevent the loss of federal funds for Sections 1 and 2.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Jan 22, 2026HouseCommitteeto Banking & Insurance (H)
- Jan 14, 2026HouseIntroducedintroduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)
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Integration of Parental Mental Health into Pediatric Visits
The legislation formally links adult parental mental health screenings directly to pediatric well-child visits and Medicaid early and periodic screening benefits.
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apps.legislature.ky.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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