The ultrasound requests are not related to maternity care, but to diagnose illnesses in patients.
These guidelines do not include maternity care or simply any service the doctor orders.
They have to cover a standard set of benefits, including prescription drugs, maternity care and rehabilitation services.
The VA's benefits package, for example, doesn't cover maternity care and, with few exceptions, doesn't cover spouses or children.
However, starting in 2014, all maternity care will be covered by all new individual, small business and government exchange plans.
In North Wales maternity care across three hospitals is expected to change after an initial review recently concluded improvement was needed.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn will outline the government's plans to improve maternity care in a speech to the conference on Wednesday.
They included maternity care as well as some accident and emergency treatment.
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The NHS confederation, which speaks for managers, described maternity care as a classic example of a service which desperately needed to be reorganised.
Meanwhile, a separate report by the National Childbirth Trust and National Federation of Women's Institute into women's experiences of maternity care was released on Thursday.
Health reform also requires plans in the individual insurance market to cover maternity care, which only about 13 percent of such plans did in 2009.
They serve as a canary in the mine shaft -- tell us that we need to look more carefully at the system of maternity care.
One consequence of hospitals losing specialist maternity care - that is to say consultant obstetricians - is that more birthing units will rely on midwife-led care.
The Affordable Care Act states that all insurance sold on state exchanges must cover ten basic things, such as emergency care, maternity care, and so on.
For small businesses, being self-insured would let them avoid new requirements under the law that call for traditional small group plans to include richer benefits, such as mental-health and maternity care.
The new insurance exchanges created by this law ensure coverage of preventive care and basic health services, including maternity care, which is often not provided in health plans in the individual insurance market.
The Philadelphia prison commissioner Lou Giorla was lobbied to change the policy on shackling by the Maternity Care Coalition, a group which runs classes inside the jail for pregnant prisoners, to help prepare them for the birth.
Most women already have choice and one-to-one maternity care, and we are working closely with the Royal College of Midwives to ensure that personalised, one to one maternity care is available for every woman across the country.
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Previous attempts to re-organise maternity care around a smaller number of hospital units have proved controversial, but Dr Falconer said if women could be convinced of the greater safety they would be prepared to travel to have their babies.
Among those are maternity care, substance abuse and mental-health services and prescription-drug coverage, which aren't standard in individual policies today, says Sarah Lueck, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit group in Washington.
It says that use of the independent sector represents 0.4% of the total acute spend (acute covers all spending on hospital services with the exceptions of maternity, care of the elderly, mental health and learning disability).
Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts was leading a debate on behalf of his party on maternity and neonatal care, on 20 June 2012.
This can be achieved by legal measures and through national action and international cooperation in such fields as economic and social development, education, safe maternity and health care, and social support.
Before leaving their tables, women at the dinner pledged time and money for more prenatal care and maternity clinics in developing nations.
That means offering payment and promotion on merit, more temporary and part-time work, and better child care, maternity leave and job prospects for their female staff.
It said some services, including accident and emergency, intensive care and maternity, could be provided at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, the Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust instead.
Eastbourne hospital would have a stand-alone midwifery-led maternity unit and enhanced paediatric care.
Cumbria Police are investigating a number of deaths of those who received care at the maternity unit at Barrow's Furness General Hospital.
The trust is now at the centre of allegations of poor standards of care at its maternity unit and more than 30 families have begun litigation.
However, he added that whatever happened, several essential services had to remain local to the area, including an accident and emergency department, emergency surgery and maternity and children's care.
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