HR 896 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 1, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedFeb 28, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), as part of the pediatric quality measures program and the Medicaid Quality Measurement Program (MQMP), to: (1) review certain quality measures endorsed under the Medicare program that relate to the care of childbearing women and newborns, particularly with respect to their application to the programs under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP), identifying omissions and deficiencies in such applications; (2) develop and publish a set of maternity care quality measures for the Medicaid and CHIP programs in accordance with specified requirements; and (3) review the Mother and Infant Care (MIC) quality measures and develop, on an ongoing basis, any modifications of, or additions to, them that reflect the development, testing, validation, and consensus process.

Directs the Secretary to enter into grants, contracts, or intergovernmental agreements with qualified measure development entities to: (1) identify quality of care issues that are not adequately addressed by the MIC quality measures; and (2) develop, test, and validate modifications of such measures.

Requires a qualified measure development entity with such a grant, contract, or intergovernmental agreement to consult with voluntary consensus standards setting organizations and other organizations involved in the advancement of evidence-based measures of health to create, as part of the MIC quality measures, eMeasures (for which measurement data, including clinical data, will be collected electronically) aligned with the measures developed under the pediatric quality measures program and the MQMP.

Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to adapt the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems program surveys of providers, facilities, and health plans to ensure that the adapted surveys are effective in measuring aspects of care that childbearing women and newborns experience.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to support: (1) the development of new state and regional maternity care quality collaboratives; (2) expanded activities of existing maternity care quality collaboratives; and (3) maternity care initiatives within established state and regional quality collaboratives that are not focused exclusively on maternity care.

Cosponsors 19

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 6, 2013 to Jun 17, 2014.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-FLCorrine BrownMar 6, 2013
D-WIGwen MooreMar 6, 2013
D-ILBobby L. RushMar 13, 2013
D-NYDaniel B. MaffeiMar 13, 2013
D-MAEdward J. MarkeyMar 13, 2013
D-CAJackie SpeierMar 13, 2013
D-MNKeith EllisonMar 13, 2013
D-NJRobert E. AndrewsMar 13, 2013
D-MOWm. Lacy ClayMar 13, 2013
D-NJDonald M. Payne, Jr.Mar 19, 2013
D-IADavid LoebsackMar 20, 2013
D-OREarl BlumenauerMar 21, 2013
D-INAndré CarsonApr 9, 2013
D-RIDavid N. CicillineApr 9, 2013
D-NJRush HoltApr 9, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 1, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Feb 28, 2013Introduced in House
  3. Feb 28, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 425Quality Care for Moms and Babies ActIdentical billFeb 28, 2013

Subjects

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Text 1

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  1. Feb 28, 2013Introduced in House

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