Relating to providers participating in the state family planning services program

Additionally, the program prohibits the distribution of family planning services program funds to an entity that performs abortions or that maintains or operates a facility where abortions are performed. However, this prohibition is not to be interpreted to include a nonpublic entity that is a distinct location of a nonprofit health care delivery system if the distinct location provides family planning services but does not perform abortions or maintain or operate as a facility where abortions are performed and if, as a condition of such eligibility, each distinct location of the nonprofit health care delivery system enrolls in the state family planning services program as a separate provider, is assigned a distinct provider identification number, and completes an attestation that abortions are not performed at the distinct location. Under current law, a “nonprofit health care delivery system” is defined as an Iowa nonprofit corporation that controls, directly or indirectly, a regional health care network consisting of hospital facilities and various ambulatory and clinic locations that provide a range of primary, secondary, and tertiary inpatient, outpatient, and physician services. The bill expands this definition to also include as a “nonprofit health care delivery system” a global nonprofit corporation that operates, through affiliates, as the largest single provider of reproductive health services in the United States and provides a range of services including general health care, women’s health care services, men’s health care services, and patient education.