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Bill Detail: SB24-175

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Title Improving Perinatal Health Outcomes
Status Governor Signed (06/05/2024)
Bill Subjects
  • Health Care & Health Insurance
  • Public Health
House Sponsors B. McLachlan (D)
I. Jodeh (D)
Senate Sponsors R. Fields (D)
J. Buckner (D)
House Committee Health and Human Services
Senate Committee Health and Human Services
Date Introduced 03/05/2024
Summary

The bill requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for doula
services in the same scope and duration of coverage for doula services
that will be included in the department of health care policy and
financing's request for federal authorization of doula services under the
Colorado Medical Assistance Act (medical assistance program). Doulas
providing services must meet the same qualifications for and submit to
the same regulation as individuals providing doula services as
recommended in the report of the department of public health and
environment resulting from the stakeholder process for doula services
under the medical assistance program.
Coverage for doula services will be implemented for large
employer health benefit plans issued or renewed in this state on and after
July 1, 2025. For small group and individual plans, doula services will be
implemented if the division of insurance and the federal department of
health and human services determine that the benefit does not require
state defrayal of the cost of the benefit or the division of insurance
determines defrayal is not required and the federal department fails to
respond to the divison's request for confirmation of the determination
within 365 days after the request is made.
The bill authorizes the department of public health and
environment (department) to partner with the designated state perinatal
care quality collaborative (perinatal quality collaborative) to track the
statewide implementation of the recommendations of the Colorado
maternal mortality review committee, implement perinatal health quality
improvement programs with hospitals that provide labor and delivery or
neonatal care services (hospital) to improve infant and maternal health
outcomes, and address disparate care outcomes among certain populations
and of those living in frontier areas of the state.
The bill requires hospitals to submit specified data to the perinatal
quality collaborative concerning disparities in perinatal health care and
health-care outcomes; to annually participate in at least one maternal or
infant health quality improvement initiative (initiative), as determined by
the hospitals; and to report to the perinatal quality collaborative regarding
the implementation and outcomes of the initiative. The bill authorizes
financial support for hospitals in rural and frontier areas of the state,
hospitals that serve a higher number of medical assistance patients or
uninsured patients, and hospitals with lower-acuity maternal or neonatal
levels of care.
In collaboration with the department, the bill requires the perinatal
quality collaborative to issue an annual report on clinical quality
improvements in maternal and infant health outcomes and related data
that can be shared with hospitals and health facilities, policymakers, and
others and posted on the internet.
The bill requires coverage of over-the-counter, prescribed choline
supplements for pregnant people to fulfill the federal food and drug
administration's daily adequate intake for pregnant people.

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