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Maternal remote‑monitoring and produce‑prescription programs seek funding amid federal uncertainty
Summary
Nonprofit and private providers asked the Committee on Health to move forward on a Medicaid state plan amendment to fund prenatal/postpartum remote patient monitoring and to expand Produce Rx funding; witnesses said small, strategic investments can reduce long‑term costs and improve outcomes.
Several community health and public‑health programs asked the Committee on Health on June 5 to preserve or expand targeted investments that advocates say produce measurable health gains.
BabyScripts, a DC‑based digital maternal health company, urged the Council to fund and implement the Postpartum Coverage Expansion Amendment Act and to ask DHCF to submit a Medicaid State Plan Amendment (SPA) to support prenatal and postpartum remote patient monitoring (RPM). Sarah Nicholson and Justina Tong described program…
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