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Relating to Medicaid postpartum coverage
Topics:Health careMedicaid
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires that under both fee-for-service and managed care administration of Medicaid, the department of human services (DHS) shall adopt administrative rules, amend any contract with a managed care organization, and apply for any Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver as may be necessary to provide continuous Medicaid eligibility for a woman for a 12-month postpartum period, if the woman applied for Medicaid coverage before the end of the woman’s pregnancy, was determined Medicaid eligible, and remains eligible for coverage during the month in which the woman’s pregnancy ends.
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The woman’s eligibility for coverage shall continue during the 12-month postpartum period beginning with the last day of the woman’s pregnancy through the end of the month in which the 12-month period ends, shall continue without regard to the basis for the woman’s eligibility or changes in family income or resources, and shall continue in the same coverage group under which the woman received Medicaid coverage while pregnant unless the woman qualifies for Medicaid under another coverage group once the pregnancy ends or unless the woman’s eligibility is through the medically needy program.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 6, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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