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SB 137 · 2025 · Senate · Health and Human Services Committee

Medicaid coverage for newborn parents' hospital stays

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relative to hospital stays covered under the state Medicaid plan.

Directs the department of health and human services to establish an administrative day rate and swing bed rate under the state Medicaid plan for certain hospital stays involving parents of newborns.AI-generated

Status

Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · November 3, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✕Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Analysis

This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish an administrative day rate and swing bed rate under the state Medicaid plan for certain hospital stays for parents of newborns.

From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.

In the bill's words

Quoted verbatim from the bill as amended by the Senate. Passages chosen from the operative text.Computed by this site

“The department shall establish an administrative day rate for those days of hospital stay in which a client does not meet criteria for acute inpatient level of care, but is not discharged because:”
RSA 126-A:18-c
“An appropriate placement outside the hospital is not available; and (2) The postpartum parent's newborn remains on an inpatient claim for monitoring post-in utero exposure to substances that may lead to physiologic dependence and continuous care by the postpartum parent is the appropriate first-line treatment.”
RSA 126-A:18-c
“The department shall use the annual statewide weighted average nursing facility Medicaid payment rate to update the all-inclusive administrative day rate on November 1st of each year.”
RSA 126-A:18-c
“The administrative day rate shall include pharmacy services, pharmaceuticals, and medically necessary ancillary services, as determined by the department, when these services are provided during administrative days.”
RSA 126-A:18-c

Official record

Bill page — docket & status

gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source

Sponsors

Sen. Suzanne PrentissDPrimeAssistant Democratic Leader

Public testimony

No one submitted online testimony on this bill. See the record

Votes

yeanay
Starting text: Bill as introduced

Hearings and debates

  • Feb 5, 2025Public hearingSenate Health and Human Services2:57:50–3:07:149m 24slocated in the stream transcriptHearing
  • Mar 6, 2025Floor debateSenate floorWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamCommittee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0305s; Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0305s — adopted, voice vote; Committee Amendment # 2025-0305s — adopted, voice vote
  • Mar 20, 2025Floor debateSenate floor2:20:14–2:22:031m 49slocated in the stream transcriptCommittee Report: Ought to Pass; Ought to Pass — adopted, voice vote; Sen. Gray Moved Laid on Table — adopted, voice vote

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Legislative history

  1. Jan 9, 2025SenIntroduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 3
  2. Feb 5, 2025SenHearing: 02/05/2025, Room 101, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 8
  3. Mar 6, 2025Sen: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0305s, 03/06/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 11
  4. Mar 6, 2025SenCommittee Amendment # 2025-0305s, AA, VV; 03/06/2025; SJ 6
  5. Mar 6, 2025SenOught to Pass with Amendment #2025-0305s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 03/06/2025; SJ 6
  6. Mar 20, 2025SenCommittee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/20/2025, Vote 6-0; SC 13
  7. Mar 20, 2025SenOught to Pass: MA, VV; 03/20/2025; SJ 8
  8. Mar 20, 2025SenSen. Gray Moved Laid on Table, MA, VV; 03/20/2025; SJ 8
  9. Mar 20, 2025SenPending Motion OT3rdg; 03/20/2025; SJ 8
  10. Oct 31, 2025SenInexpedient to Legislate, Senate Rule 3-23, 10/31/2025; SJ 1

Coverage

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Documents (PDF)

Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.