Bill Text: VA HB1976 | 2025 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: High-risk pregnant patients; remote patient monitoring services available to patients.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2025-02-11 - Assigned Education sub: Health [HB1976 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2025-HB1976-Comm_Sub.html
2025 SESSION
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE
25106007D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1976
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on ______________
on January 24, 2025)
(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate Laufer)
A BILL to direct the Department of Medical Assistance Services to clarify that remote patient monitoring services for high-risk pregnant patients are available to patients with maternal hypertension and maternal diabetes and to report on the number of persons receiving and the cost of providing remote patient monitoring services for such conditions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) shall amend its regulations, guidance, and provider manuals as necessary to clarify that remote patient monitoring services for high-risk pregnant patients include pregnant patients with maternal diabetes and maternal hypertension. The Department shall submit a report on the number of persons receiving remote patient monitoring services for maternal diabetes and maternal hypertension and the cost of providing remote patient monitoring services to such persons to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Committees on Appropriations and Health and Human Services and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health by November 1, 2025.
