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Committee updates Medicaid language to ensure continuous glucose monitor coverage for pregnant women including gestational diabetes
Summary
The committee unanimously recommended passage of an amendment to Medicaid coverage language to explicitly include continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for pregnant patients with gestational diabetes, clarifying the earlier statute and extending the effective date.
The Health and Human Services Committee unanimously recommended passage of an amendment to Medicaid coverage language that explicitly adds gestational diabetes as a covered indication for continuous glucose monitors (CGMs).
A presenter told the committee the change updates language in a law passed last year to ensure CGMs are covered when a physician prescribes them for pregnant women with diabetes, and adjusts the effective date…
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