US Congress Senate Bill 425 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), as part of the pediatric quality measures program and the Medicaid Quality Measurement Program (MQMP), to: (1) review certain quality measures endorsed under the Medicare program that relate to the care of childbearing women and newborns, particularly with respect to their application to the programs under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP), identifying omissions and deficiencies in such applications; (2) develop and publish a set of maternity care quality measures for the Medicaid and CHIP programs in accordance with specified requirements; and (3) review the Mother and Infant Care (MIC) quality measures and develop, on an ongoing basis, any modifications of, or additions to, them that reflect the development, testing, validation, and consensus process. Directs the Secretary to enter into grants, contracts, or intergovernmental agreements with qualified measure development entities to: (1) identify quality of care issues that are not adequately addressed by the MIC quality measures; and (2) develop, test, and validate modifications of such measures. Requires a qualified measure development entity with such a grant, contract, or intergovernmental agreement to consult with voluntary consensus standards setting organizations and other organizations involved in the advancement of evidence-based measures of health to create, as part of the MIC quality measures, eMeasures (for which measurement data, including clinical data, will be collected electronically) aligned with the measures developed under the pediatric quality measures program and the MQMP. Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to adapt the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems program surveys of providers, facilities, and health plans to ensure that the adapted surveys are effective in measuring aspects of care that childbearing women and newborns experience. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to support: (1) the development of new state and regional maternity care quality collaboratives; (2) expanded activities of existing maternity care quality collaboratives; and (3) maternity care initiatives within established state and regional quality collaboratives that are not focused exclusively on maternity care.

Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act

Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-28	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB896 (Same As) 2013-03-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/425/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s425/BILLS-113s425is.pdf