3.0.0 794 2023-01-11T19:46:35Z 2023-01-11T19:46:35Z Senate S S 2007-03-07 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-03-07T20:20:39Z Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 110 2746 HR 2007-06-15 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Related bill CRS 2007-03-07 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2007-03-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT N L000504 Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] RICHARD LUGAR R IN GREEN 2007-03-07 True B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2007-03-07 True S000663 Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] Olympia Snowe R ME J. 2007-03-07 True K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2007-04-10 False C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2007-04-23 False Health Aliens Block grants Child health Cigarettes Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Contraceptives Dental care Drug abuse Drug abuse prevention Drugs Economics and Public Finance Employee health benefits Families Family planning and birth control Federal aid to child health services Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Health counseling Health insurance Housing and Community Development Identification devices Immigrant health Immigration Infants Intergovernmental fiscal relations Labor and Employment Low birth weight Maternal health services Medicaid Medical statistics Medically uninsured Poor children Pregnancy Pregnant women Prescription pricing Quality of care Rural health Science, Technology, Communications Smokeless tobacco Smoking Social Welfare State laws Telemedicine Welfare eligibility Welfare waivers Women Women's health Health 00 2007-03-07 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-19T21:22:26Z Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give states new options to cover: (1) low-income pregnant women; and (2) low-income legal immigrant pregnant women and children under Medicaid and SCHIP.

Extends coverage under Medicaid of prescription drugs and counseling services to tobacco cessation medications to help pregnant women enrolled in the program quit using tobacco. Requires coverage of tobacco cessation counseling services for pregnant women, and exempts such services from cost-sharing charges.

Gives states the option under Medicaid to: (1) provide family planning services and supplies to individuals with incomes that do not exceed a state's income eligibility level for medical assistance; and (2) extend the postpartum period for provision of family planning services and supplies.

Gives states the option to provide supplemental SCHIP coverage to children who have other health coverage.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a demonstration program to provide payments to states for telemedicine services for the treatment of applicable individuals; (2) develop and disseminate a national set of core pediatric and perinatal quality measures; and (3) collect data regarding the extent to which states use pediatric and perinatal inpatient and outpatient quality measures on an ongoing basis.

]]> Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to provide States with the option to expand or add coverage of pregnant women under the Medicaid and State children's health insurance programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-07T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s794is/xml/BILLS-110s794is.xml 2007-03-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.