S 4088 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act

Introduced Jun 25, 2020 Originated Senate Sponsor Sherrod Brown D-OH

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jun 25, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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.

IntroducedJun 25, 2020
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act

This bill temporarily applies a Medicare payment rate floor to Medicaid primary care services that are provided after the date of enactment of the bill or during a public health emergency, extends the payment rate to additional types of practitioners (e.g., obstetricians), and establishes other requirements with respect to payment for such services.

Cosponsors 8

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 25, 2020 to Jul 1, 2020, with 7 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-HI	Brian Schatz	Original	Jun 25, 2020
D-CT	Christopher Murphy	Original	Jun 25, 2020
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow	Original	Jun 25, 2020
D-OR	Jeff Merkley	Original	Jun 25, 2020
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy	Original	Jun 25, 2020
D-WA	Patty Murray	Original	Jun 25, 2020
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	Jun 25, 2020
D-CT	Richard Blumenthal		Jul 1, 2020

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 25, 2020Introduced in Senate
Jun 25, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

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Jun 25, 2020Introduced in Senate

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