3.0.0 2637 2023-01-11T13:39:43Z 2023-01-11T13:39:43Z Senate S 2018-04-10 115 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-04-10T15:38:20Z Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act 115 5457 HR 2018-04-18 Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. Related bill CRS 2018-04-10 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2018-04-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI N B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2018-04-10 True R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2018-04-10 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2018-04-10 True H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. 2018-04-10 True M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2018-04-10 True K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2018-05-14 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2018-06-04 False C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2018-06-11 False G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2018-08-15 False H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. 2018-11-27 False Health Health 00 2018-04-10 Introduced in Senate 2018-04-16T16:35:25Z 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 Display Title Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act Introduced in Senate 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2637is/xml/BILLS-115s2637is.xml 2018-04-10 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.