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Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

Key claim: The Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (S1677) would require health plans to cover medically necessary treatment for congenital anomalies and birth defects, with hearings held in the Senate HELP Committee.

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(S1677 · 119th Congress) Latest action (2026-03-19): Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.

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If enacted, the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act would extend federal insurance-coverage requirements to medically necessary services for congenital anomalies and birth defects, closing a common gap where insurers deny reconstructive or functional treatments as ‘cosmetic.’ The bill remains at the committee-hearing stage in the Senate HELP Committee, so it does not yet change what patients pay or what plans must cover.

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Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
Stage: introduced · congress · 19-mar-2026

The Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (S1677) would require health plans to cover medically necessary treatment for congenital anomalies and birth defects, with hearings held in the Senate HELP Committee.

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External: congress:119-s-1677:introduced

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