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Relating to the Medicaid extended postpartum coverage option, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions
Topics:Health careMedicaid
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 6, 2023
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
DIVISION I —— MEDICAID EXTENDED POSTPARTUM COVERAGE. Under current federal law, pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries are eligible for at least pregnancy-related services through the end of the month in which the 60-day period beginning on the last day of the pregnancy ends. 1319) provide the option to states to submit a state plan amendment to provide postpartum Medicaid coverage for months after the end of a pregnancy for a five-year period. A provision under the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 removed the five-year limitation.
Read the full explanation
This division requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services for approval of the new option to provide months of continuous postpartum coverage under the Medicaid program to pregnant women enrolled in the Medicaid program. The division of the bill takes effect upon enactment. DIVISION II —— MEDICAID EXTENDED POSTPARTUM COVERAGE —— APPROPRIATION. This division of the bill appropriates moneys from the general fund of the state to HHS for FY 2023-2024 and FY 2024-2025 for the state costs of postpartum coverage under the Medicaid program.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Lobbying
16 for · 0 against · 3 undecided · Who →
Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2005 Relating to the Medicaid extended postpartum coverage option89th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- HSB 226 HSB 22690th General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
- SF 57 Relating to the Medicaid extended postpartum coverage option and including effective date …90th General Assembly · In committeeVery similar
Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.