S 2872
114th Congress
Senate
Health
Child health
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Medicaid
NAS Healthy Babies Act
Introduced: April 28, 2016
Introduced by:
Capito, Shelley Moore
Republican
· West Virginia
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Became law
Apr 28, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 28, 2016
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Nurturing and Supporting Healthy Babies Act or the NAS Healthy Babies Act
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), which results from a newborn's exposure to addictive opiate drugs while in the mother's womb.
Specifically, the GAO shall report on:
- the prevalence of NAS,
- NAS treatment services for which coverage is available under state Medicaid programs,
- the settings and associated reimbursement methodologies for NAS treatment,
- the prevalence of utilization of various care settings under state Medicaid programs for NAS treatment, and
- any federal barriers to treating infants with NAS under state Medicaid programs.
The GAO shall also report on its recommendations for improvements that will ensure access to NAS treatment under state Medicaid programs.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1