Skip to content
Georgia Commons
Menu

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 49. SOCIAL SERVICES · Chapter 4. PUBLIC ASSISTANCE · Article 7. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE GENERALLY

49-4-159. Medicaid coverage for lactation and postpartum care.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    The department shall provide Medicaid coverage for:#

    1. (1)

      Lactation care and services, as defined in paragraph (5) of Code Section 43-22A-3, to pregnant and lactating women and to children who are breastfeeding or receiving their mother’s milk; and#

    2. (2)

      Postpartum care for mothers for a period of one year following the date the pregnancy ends.#

  2. (b)

    If necessary to implement the provisions of this Code section, the department shall submit a Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver request to the United States Department of Health and Human Services.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 49-4-159, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 224, § 1/HB 1114; Ga. L. 2022, p. 759, § 1/SB 338. The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, in paragraph (a)(2), substituted “one year” for “six months”, and “pregnancy ends” for “woman gives birth” at the end.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2020, p. 224, § 2/HB 1114, not codified by the General Assembly, provided that the enactment of this Code section was contingent upon a specific appropriation of funds for purposes of this Act. Funding was appropriated in 2020.

Cross references

Newborn Baby and Mother Protection Act, § 33-24-58.2. Lactation Consultant Practice, § 43-22A-1 et seq.

Law reviews

For article, “SB 338: Amendments Relating to Medicaid Postpartum Coverage,” see 39 Ga. St. U.L. 281 (2022).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t49-t50-ch1-12-(v38)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V38, 2023 edition, pages 152 to 153; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 b1a50b0e3917.