US Congress Senate Bill 2637 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: Introduced on April 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-04-10 - 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 This bill directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to: identify and publish a recommended core set of maternal and infant quality measures for women and children, as specified by the bill; publish an initial core set of any such measures applicable to mothers and infants eligible under Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP); establish a Maternal and Infant Quality Measurement Program; and establish an online clearinghouse of resources for entities working to improve maternity and infant care quality. The CMS may make grants to eligible entities for: the development of new state and regional maternity and infant care quality collaboratives; expanded activities of existing collaboratives; and maternity and infant 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. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-04-10	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB5457 (Related) 2018-04-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2637/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2637/BILLS-115s2637is.pdf