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Supporting Best Practices for Healthy Moms Act
Introduced: February 24, 2021
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Feb 24, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 24, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Supporting Best Practices for Healthy Moms Act
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to publish and periodically update guidance for hospitals, freestanding birth centers, and other maternal care providers on ways to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
The CMS must also report on the Medicaid payment methodologies that apply to facility transfers of pregnant women.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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