Supporting Best Practices for Healthy Moms Act
- Last Action
- 2/24/2021
Actions
- 2021-02-24Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2021-02-24Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-02-24 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (6)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Shelley Capito (R-WV)
- Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Subjects
- Advisory bodies
- Congressional oversight
- Government information and archives
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Performance measurement
- Sex and reproductive health
- Women's health
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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