Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt an amendment to HB 1301 that requires health insurers to cover transabdominal ultrasound imaging prior to an abortion.

Highlights:

• Requires health insurers to include patient coverage for transabdominal ultrasound imaging for the purpose of determining gestational age prior to an abortion procedure.

• Exempts the following types of insurance policies from the provisions of this bill:
• Short-term travel;
• Accident only;
• Limited or specific disease;
• Individual conversion policies or contracts; and
• Medicare policies or similar state or federal government plans.

• Requires insurance coverage for transabdominal ultrasound imaging to apply to state employees, local government employees, local officers, teachers, retirees, and the dependents of these employees.

• Appropriates $3.1 million to fund ultrasound imaging for uninsured Virginians, to be distributed by the Secretary of Health and Human Resources.

• Prohibits payment or reimbursement to facilities that perform 5 or more first trimester abortions per month, with the exception of academic medical centers and inpatient hospitals.

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