Bills affecting Medicaid / public insurance in Pennsylvania — 2026 session

In public assistance, providing for pain parity in Medicaid and for pain parity in commercial insurance.

In comprehensive health care for uninsured children, further providing for contracts and coverage packages and providing for frenectomy services required.

In financial responsibility, further providing for definitions, for payments to satisfy judgments, for neighborhood electric vehicles, for notice of available benefits and limits and for availability of uninsured, underinsured, bodily injury liability and property damage coverages and mandatory deductibles.

Providing for artificial intelligence in facilities, for artificial intelligence use by insurers and for artificial intelligence use by MA or CHIP managed care plans; imposing duties on the Department of Health, the Insurance Department and the Department of Human Services; and imposing penalties.

Establishing the Medicaid Care Transition Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services.

In liability and compensation, further providing for schedule of compensation; and, in Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund, further providing for claims.

In financial responsibility, further providing for availability, scope and amount of coverage, repealing provisions relating to request for lower limits of coverage, providing for offer of lower limits of coverage, repealing provisions relating to coverages in excess of required amounts and to stacking of uninsured and underinsured benefits and option to waive, providing for stacking of uninsured and underinsured benefits prohibited and further providing for notice of available benefits and limits and for availability of uninsured, underinsured, bodily injury liability and property damage coverages and mandatory deductibles.

In public assistance, providing for work requirements for Medicaid enrollees.