What are the benefits once the child is born?
• Two postpartum visits for the mother. • Depending on the family’s income level, hospital facility charges for labor with delivery and the newborn’s first hospital admission may or may not be covered by CHIP perinatal. The covered services available before the child is discharged from the hospital are explained in more detail in the health plan provider manuals. • Once a child is discharged from the initial hospital admission, the child receives the traditional CHIP benefit package. A full list of covered benefits is available at www.CHIPmedicaid.org. What services are not covered? CHIP perinatal provides a basic prenatal care package. Participating health plans will distribute a provider manual that includes the covered and non-covered (excluded) benefits. Examples of non-covered services include: • Inpatient hospital care for the mother of the unborn child that is not related to labor with delivery, such as a broken arm. • Labor without delivery of the baby (false labor). • Most out
