Title: Helping MOMS Act of 2021
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Helping Medicaid Offer Maternity Services Act of 2021 or the Helping MOMS Act of 2021
This bill permanently allows states to provide one year of postpartum coverage under Medicaid and temporarily increases the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) for pregnancy-related services in states that choose to do so.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3345 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3345

  To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and title XIX of the 
   Social Security Act to promote extended coverage of pregnant and 
              postpartum women under the Medicaid program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2021

Ms. Kelly of Illinois (for herself, Ms. Herrera Beutler, Ms. Underwood, 
Ms. Pressley, and Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and title XIX of the 
   Social Security Act to promote extended coverage of pregnant and 
              postpartum women under the Medicaid program.

    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 ``Helping Medicaid Offer Maternity 
Services Act of 2021'' or the ``Helping MOMS Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. PROMOTING EXTENDED COVERAGE OF PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM WOMEN 
              UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM.

    (a) Eliminating Time Limit on State Option To Elect Extended 
Coverage.--Section 9812(b) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 
(Public Law 117-2) is amended by striking ``during the 5-year period''.
    (b) Increasing FMAP for Pregnancy-Related Services for Certain 
States.--Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``and (ii)'' and 
        inserting ``(ii), and (jj)'';
            (2) in subsection (ff), by striking ``and (ii)'' and 
        inserting ``(ii), and (jj)''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(jj) Temporary Increase in FMAP for Pregnancy-Related Services 
for Certain States.--For each quarter occurring during the 4-quarter 
period beginning with the first calendar quarter during which a State 
makes the election described in section 1902(e)(16), the Federal 
medical assistance percentage for such State that would otherwise apply 
(including, if applicable, such percentage that would otherwise apply 
under subsection (y) or (z)) with respect to amounts expended by the 
State for medical assistance for pregnancy-related services (including 
prenatal, delivery, and post partum services) furnished during such 
quarter shall, after application of any increase, if applicable, under 
section 6008 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act or under 
subsection (ii), be increased by 5 percentage points. Application of 
the previous sentence may not result in the Federal medical assistance 
percentage for a State exceeding 100 percent.''.
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