SB138: Makes revisions governing health care for pregnant women and newborn children. (BDR 40-580)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring certain hospitals to enroll as a qualified provider for determining whether a pregnant woman is presumptively eligible for Medicaid or contract with certain entities to make such determinations; requiring such hospitals and contractors to provide notices relating to Medicaid to certain persons; prescribing certain rights for parents and legal guardians of newborn children who are patients in a neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.