It is a growing concern that mothers and infants at high medical risk are being discharged too early from the hospital, creating potential postpartum problems. It is the intent of the Legislature that efficient, cost-
effective, quality and necessary postpartum health care, and not Adrive-
through deliveries,@ are provided to newly-born children and their mothers
in the safest manner and at the earliest possible time. It is the intention of the Legislature to set the minimum maternity-stay at forty-eight (48) hours of inpatient care for routine vaginal deliveries and ninety-six (96) hours of inpatient care for Cesarean section for a mother and her newly born child, unless earlier discharge is made in accordance with the medical criteria outlined in the Public Health and Social Services Maternity-Stay Rules and Regulations. All individual and group health insurance, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and nonprofit health plan (NHP) policies delivered or issued for delivery on Guam and which provide maternity coverage shall be required to cover this cost.