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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7165
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4636
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING ME DICAID COVERAGE FOR DONOR B REAST
MILK.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) (a) The Commissioner of 1
Social Services shall provide Medicaid reimbursement for pasteurized 2
donor breast milk, provided (1) a health care professional licensed 3
pursuant to chapter 370 of the general statutes signs a medical order 4
that the donor breast milk is medically necessary for an infant in 5
accordance with section 17b-259b of the general statutes, (2) the donor 6
breast milk is provided on an inpatient basis at a hospital, (3) (A) the 7
infant who receives the donor breast milk is medically or physically 8
unable to receive maternal breast milk or participate in breast feeding, 9
or (B) the infant's mother is medically or physically unable to produce 10
maternal breast milk in sufficient quantities, or is unable to participate 11
in breast feeding despite optimal lactation support, and (4) the donor 12
breast milk is supplied by a breast milk bank accredited by the Human 13
Milk Banking Association of North America. The commissioner may 14
seek any necessary federal approval to implement the provisions of 15
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(b) The commissioner may adopt regulations to implement the 17
provisions of this section, including, but not limited to, establishing 18
which infant health conditions make the provision of donor breast 19
milk medically necessary. The commissioner may adopt a policy or 20
procedure to implement the provisions of this section while in the 21
process of adopting regulations provided such policy or procedure is 22
posted on the Internet web site of the Department of Social Services 23
and on the eRegulations System prior to adoption of the policy. 24
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To provide Medicaid reimbursement for donor breast milk deemed
medically necessary.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]