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Committee backs amendment to ensure Medicaid covers continuous glucose monitors for gestational diabetes (House Bill 352, LC520828S)
Summary
Lawmakers unanimously advanced an amendment to a previously enacted law to explicitly require Medicaid coverage of continuous glucose monitors for pregnant women with gestational diabetes and to update the effective date to July 1, 2025.
The committee unanimously passed an amendment to House Bill 352 (LC 520828S) Thursday that explicitly adds gestational diabetes to the list of covered indications under Medicaid for continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and updates the statutory effective date.
"It's a simple but significant amendment...the amendment ensures that Medicaid will cover continuous glucose monitors for pregnant women diagnosed with, with diabetes, and we've added the word gestational diabetes," the bill's…
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