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Committee advances broad Medicaid 'med‑tech' bill and companion postpartum screening bill
Summary
A Senate committee reported a large "med‑tech" Medicaid bill (SB 2867) containing multiple changes requested by Medicaid and CMS, and a related bill (SB 2874) to require postpartum depression screenings and prohibit step therapy for postpartum depression; an amendment was adopted to add nonstatin cardiovascular drugs.
A Mississippi Senate committee reported a comprehensive Medicaid technical bill (Senate Bill 2867) that makes multiple programmatic and reimbursement changes at the request of Medicaid and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and also reported a companion bill (Senate Bill 2874) that mandates postpartum depression screening coverage and bars step therapy for postpartum depression.
Senator Blackwell, presenting SB 2867, said much of the bill is at the request of Medicaid and CMS and that a similar measure had passed the Senate last year but stalled in the House. "The vast majority of these changes that are in this bill are either at the request of Medicaid or CMS," he said. He listed provisions including authorization for value-based payment models, changes to pediatrician reimbursement rates (percent not specified in committee…
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