Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act
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.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 26, 2021
Last action May 26, 2021
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
2
Key actions
0
Committee
1
May 26, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 26, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 9 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Sherrod Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Bernard Sanders
IIndependent
Co
Brian Schatz
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher Murphy
DDemocratic
Co
Debbie Stabenow
DDemocratic
Co
Jeff Merkley
DDemocratic
Co
Patrick J. Leahy
DDemocratic
Co
Patty Murray
DDemocratic
Co
Richard Blumenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Tammy Baldwin
DDemocratic
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