Enrolling your baby in
Kaiser Permanente
Your baby’s health coverage
Your Kaiser Permanente maternity benefits cover your baby for 31 days from birth (including the date of birth). Please note that if you do not enroll your baby in a health plan within 31 days of birth, your baby may lose his or her health coverage.
To ensure your baby has health coverage, it is important that you take these four simple steps in the first few days of your baby’s life:
- Maintain your health plan membership. Your health plan benefits include prenatal and postpartum care for you and your baby. You may be charged non-member fees for any care you or your baby receives after your membership lapses.
- During your hospital stay, fill out a form to enroll your baby in your Kaiser Permanente health plan. Your baby’s name will be needed for enrollment and for his or her birth certificate, so please be prepared to name your baby before leaving the hospital.
- Within 31 days of your baby’s birth, fill out any necessary forms for your employer, group, or trust fund. If your health coverage is through your employer or your spouse or partner’s employer, you will need to contact them to have your baby added to the plan. If you are enrolled in a group plan, your employer or trust fund will typically require a written change of enrollment.
- Your group’s forms are often in addition to the forms you fill out during your hospital stay. Be sure to ask your employer or group administrator which forms you will need and the date by which you must submit them.
Note: If you are a Direct Pay member, you must also submit a written Change of Account Status card to Direct Pay Accounts within 31 days of your baby’s birth. The coverage will begin the first of the month following the date of birth.
Enrollments received after the 31-day enrollment period will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
How to reach us
Need to make an appointment with your care provider? Feeling something unusual or like you’re going into labor? Want advice about breastfeeding? We’re here for your call.
