Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 22, § 1024. Group, family group, blanket, and association health and accident insurance; mandatory coverage

B. (1) All policies issued more than ninety days following September 1, 1979, which in addition to covering the insured also cover members of the insured's immediate family, shall offer coverage for the transportation by professional ambulance services, including air or surface transport, of all the newly born to the nearest available hospital or neonatal special care unit for treatment of illnesses, injuries, congenital defects, and complications of premature birth but the coverage need not include transportation services for the purpose of obtaining routine well baby care.

(2) Such policies shall also provide coverage for transportation by professional ambulance services of the temporarily medically disabled mother of the ill newly born when accompanying the ill newly born to the nearest available hospital or neonatal special care unit. The mother's need for professional ambulance service must be certified by her attending physician.

(1) “Newly born” means infants from the time of birth until age one month or until such time as the infant is well enough to be discharged from a hospital or neonatal special care unit to his home, whichever period is longer.

(2) “Temporarily medically disabled mother” means a woman who has recently given birth and whose physician has advised that normal travel would be hazardous to her health.