Rhode Island bill requires health insurance plans to cover licensed certified professional midwives and mandate annual cost reporting

Original title: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Requires health insurance plans to cover services provided by licensed certified professional midwives. Insurers would be required to report utilization and cost data annually and certain limited benefit policies would be exempt.)

Last action · May 5, 2026: Committee recommended measure be held for further studySponsors: Tiara Mack and 9 others

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What This Bill Proposed

Health insurance plans in Rhode Island would be required to cover services provided by licensed certified professional midwives, while insurers must report utilization and cost data annually under a new Senate bill.

Why it matters

Enrollees seeking home or birth-center delivery care would gain insurance coverage for licensed certified professional midwives, while health insurers face new administrative reporting mandates.

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.

Directly affected

Licensed certified professional midwives

Their professional services become a mandated coverage category for health insurance plans.

Directly affected

Health insurers

They must update policy coverage to include certified professional midwives and submit annual utilization and cost data.

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Health insurance enrollees

They gain access to insurance coverage for licensed certified professional midwife services under non-exempt plans.

Key Facts

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does this bill apply to all types of health insurance policies?

No, certain would be exempt from the requirements.

What information must insurers report under the measure?

Insurers would be required to report utilization and cost data annually.

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Where This Stands

This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Senate committee.

Procedural history

3 actions

May 5, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
May 1, 2026
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2026)
Jan 30, 2026Introduced
Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services

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