Title: Connected MOM Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Connected Maternal Online Monitoring Act or the Connected MOM Act
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to recommend, and provide resources for states on, ways to expand coverage of remote physiologic devices and related services (e.g., blood glucose monitors) under Medicaid, so as to improve maternal and child health outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women, health care for underserved and rural populations, and chronic disease management.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4859 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4859

    To require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to make 
recommendations for improving maternal and child health outcomes using 
 remote physiologic monitoring devices and expanding coverage of such 
                        devices under Medicaid.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 26 (legislative day, October 19), 2020

   Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Young, and Mr. Carper) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to make 
recommendations for improving maternal and child health outcomes using 
 remote physiologic monitoring devices and expanding coverage of such 
                        devices under Medicaid.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Connected Maternal Online Monitoring 
Act'' or the ``Connected MOM Act''.

SEC. 2. CMS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MANAGING CHRONIC DISEASE AND IMPROVING 
              MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES USING REMOTE 
              PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING DEVICES AND EXPANDING COVERAGE OF 
              SUCH DEVICES AND RELATED SERVICES UNDER MEDICAID.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 6 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
submit to Congress a report containing recommendations from the Centers 
for Medicare & Medicaid Services for expanding coverage of remote 
physiologic devices and related services under Medicaid, including 
pulse oximeters, blood pressure cuffs, scales, and blood glucose 
monitors, with the goal of improving maternal and child health outcomes 
for pregnant and postpartum women enrolled in State Medicaid programs 
(including women with high risk pregnancies), improving access to, and 
the quality of, care for underserved and rural populations, and 
improving chronic disease management across populations.
    (b) Updates to State Resources.--Not later than 90 days after the 
submission of the report under subsection (a), the Administrator of the 
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services shall update resources for 
State Medicaid programs, such as State Medicaid telehealth toolkits, 
consistent with the recommendations made by the report.
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