Maternity Wellness
Your HealthSelectSM medical plan supports you through pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum recovery.
What's covered
Your plan includes coverage for:
- prenatal and postnatal care,
- labor and deliver, including hospital stays and services by your doctor, surgeon or anesthesiologist (if needed),
- tests and screening, such as lab work, sonograms, stress tests and amniocentesis,
- support for babies admitted to special or intensive care units (through ProgenyHealth) and
- lactation support and breastfeeding supplies.
Breastfeeding support and breast pumps
HealthSelect plans cover:
- lactation support and counseling with childbirth,
- manual or electric breast pumps, including rentals, and
- breast milk storage supplies, when purchased from in-network providers or major retailers (like CVS, Walmart or Walgreens).
What to know
- One breast pump is covered per pregnancy or per newly eligible newborn
- Some coverage is available for hospital-grade pump rentals
- A prescription and receipt may be required for reimbursement
See your plan's Master Benefit Plan Document found on the Publications and Forms page for more details.
Heart health during pregnancy
The Hello Heart program, available to eligible HealthSelect medical plan participants, helps you manage heart health and includes a Pregnancy Mode designed to support your heart during pregnancy.
If you're enrolled in Hello Heart or are eligible to join, you can turn on Pregnancy Mode to:
- track your blood pressure using pregnancy-specific guidelines,
- get helpful advice and alerts and
- share easy-to-read reports with your doctor.
Pelvic floor health
Hinge Health offers a virtual pelvic health therapy program for women. Because pelvic floor disorders are different for everyone and can happen at any age, the women’s pelvic health program offers tailored treatment that can help with:
- bladder and bowel control,
- pelvic pain and
- pregnancy and postpartum-related pelvic dysfunction.
Pregnancy resources
BCBSTX Personal Health Assistants are available
by phone
Call a BCBSTX Personal Health
Assistant toll-free
(800) 252-8039 (TTY:711)
Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and
Saturday 7 a.m.-3 p.m. CT.
You can also communicate via secure chat and secure messaging
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.,
after logging into Blue Access for Members