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.
Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act
USA117th CongressS-1833| Senate
| Updated: 5/26/2021
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.
Child healthCongressional oversightDisability and paralysisGovernment studies and investigationsHealth care coverage and accessHealth care qualityHealth personnelMedicaidMedicareRural conditions and developmentSex and reproductive healthWomen's health