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Yes: 106 • No: 6
ArkansasSB2132025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
TO CREATE THE HEALTHY MOMS, HEALTHY BABIES ACT; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH IN THIS STATE.
Sponsored By: Missy Irvin (Republican), Aaron Pilkington (Republican)
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5 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Families can file childbirth injury claims
A child or their representative has until the child's fifth birthday to file a claim for medical injury during childbirth. For other medical injuries at age 9 or younger, the usual deadline is the later of the eleventh birthday or two years after the act. If an injury was unknown and could not have been discovered earlier, a separate deadline applies. It is the earlier of two years after discovery or knowledge of the injury, or the child's nineteenth birthday. These filing rules do not guarantee compensation.
Faster Medicaid access for pregnant applicants
Arkansas Medicaid must make initial eligibility decisions for pregnant applicants so eligible women can get prenatal care sooner. This temporary coverage allows care while the full application is processed. Medicaid can appoint qualified groups to screen applicants and enroll them right away.
Medicaid supports pregnancy and postpartum care
Arkansas Medicaid must pay for depression screening during pregnancy, keeping the requirement in the new maternal health law. It must also pay doulas and community health workers for home visits before or after birth. Pregnant and postpartum patients get coverage for medically needed, validated blood pressure devices, including replacement cuffs, to diagnose or treat high blood pressure. Coverage includes training to set up and use the devices. It also covers collecting readings for a provider to create or change a treatment plan.
Medicaid covers medically needed remote ultrasounds
Arkansas Medicaid must pay for medically needed remote ultrasounds using established medical billing codes. This applies to both fee-for-service coverage and managed care plans. Patients must be at home or another location away from the provider, and the same care standards must apply. The technology must securely send patient data to a provider elsewhere for interpretation and recommendations. It must have FDA approval and follow HIPAA privacy rules as they existed on January 1, 2025.
Medicaid pays separately for maternity services
Arkansas Medicaid must pay separately for prenatal, delivery, and postpartum services instead of one combined maternity payment. Listed services include office visits, lab fees, doctor-ordered testing, blood work, remote monitoring, and fetal nonstress tests. They also include medically needed continuous glucose monitors and other services for gestational diabetes. The payment change does not alter coverage through Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me or risk-based provider organizations. The Department of Human Services must adopt rules and seek needed federal waivers or amendments to implement the maternal health requirements.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Missy Irvin
Republican • Senate
Aaron Pilkington
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Breanne Davis
Republican • Senate
Mary Bentley
Republican • House
Ashley Hudson
Democratic • House
Lee Johnson
Republican • House
Jeff Wardlaw
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 2/19/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, February 19, 2025 2:40:57 PM
Yes: 76 • No: 6 • Other: 9
Senate vote • 2/12/2025
Senate Vote - Wednesday, February 12, 2025 4:01:51 PM
Yes: 30 • No: 0 • Other: 1
Actions Timeline
Notification that SB213 is now Act 140
2/25/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
2/20/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
2/20/2025SenateORDERED ENROLLED
2/19/2025SenateReturned from the House as passed.
2/19/2025SenateReturned to the Senate as passed.
2/19/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
2/19/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
2/18/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE
2/12/2025HouseRECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
2/12/2025HouseOrdered immediately transmitted to the House.
2/12/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
2/12/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
2/10/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE
2/6/2025SenateFiled
2/6/2025Senate
Bill Text
SB213 - Introduced
2/6/2025
Act Version
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