Drew Ferguson (R-GA) and
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and
Joni Ernst (R-IA) today reintroduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to ensure health insurance coverage for needed treatment and procedures for individuals born with congenital anomalies or birth defects. The Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act would close a coverage gap to ensure that health plans cover medically necessary services related to a patient s anomaly or birth defect, including any serious dental and oral-related procedures that are necessary to maintaining health and overall function. Too many children born with congenital anomalies are denied coverage despite the long-term harm of such conditions. These are children like Rosie, the daughter of a family in my district who has congenital cataracts. She requires contact lenses because glasses aren t powerful enough, and without these lenses she is blind and will have no chance of ever developing normal vision, said