| 1 | | - | Act No. 249 Public Acts of 2024 Approved by the Governor January 21, 2025 Filed with the Secretary of State January 21, 2025 EFFECTIVE DATE: April 2, 2025 state of michigan 102nd Legislature Regular session of 2024 Introduced by Reps. Glanville, Scott, Rheingans, Brenda Carter, Arbit, Tsernoglou, Brabec, Edwards, Price, Brixie, Young, Stone, Farhat, Steckloff, Byrnes, Wilson and Fitzgerald ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5172 AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates, (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 9129. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Sec. 9129. (1) Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish and implement a program to register a perinatal facility as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility. The department shall register a perinatal facility as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility under the program if the facility demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department that the facility holds a verification as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility from the Joint Commission or an equivalent organization, as determined by the department. The department shall establish procedures for a perinatal facility to report a verification described in this subsection to the department. (2) A perinatal facility seeking to register as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility under the program shall report the verification described in subsection (1) to the department once every 3 years on a form and in a manner required by the department. (3) The department shall publish and update on its website a list of each perinatal facility for which the department has registered under the program. The department shall update the list within 30 days after registering a perinatal facility under the program. The list must include the name of the perinatal facility and the facilitys maternal level of care, as confirmed by the department under the program. The department shall not list a perinatal facilitys name or maternal level of care on the departments website if the perinatal facility is not registered under the program. (4) In developing procedures for reporting a verification described in subsection (1), the department shall consult with recognized entities that are involved in providing services in a perinatal facility, including the Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative, the Michigan Health and Hospital Association, the Michigan Council for Maternal Child and Health, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American College of Nurse Midwives. The department shall enter into a partnership with the maternal levels of care verification program established by the Joint Commission and the maternal care obstetric care consensus established by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for purposes of the program. (5) The department may provide on-site technical assistance to a perinatal facility that is seeking a verification described in subsection (1) or to register under the program. (6) Subject to appropriation, the department may provide an incentive payment to a perinatal facility that registers with the department under the program. The department shall consider all of the following criteria for the award of an incentive payment: (a) Data collection and reporting at the perinatal facility. (b) Patient volume at the perinatal facility. (c) Practice guidelines at the perinatal facility. (d) The perinatal facilitys coordination with and the referral of a patient to and from another facility. (e) The perinatal facilitys implementation of safety bundles. (7) As used in this section: (a) Perinatal facility means a hospital licensed under article 17 that provides maternal care. (b) Program means the program described in subsection (1). Clerk of the House of Representatives Secretary of the Senate Approved___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Governor |
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| 1 | + | state of michigan 102nd Legislature Regular session of 2024 Introduced by Reps. Glanville, Scott, Rheingans, Brenda Carter, Arbit, Tsernoglou, Brabec, Edwards, Price, Brixie, Young, Stone, Farhat, Steckloff, Byrnes, Wilson and Fitzgerald ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5172 AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled ?An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,? (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 9129. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Sec. 9129. (1) Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish and implement a program to register a perinatal facility as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility. The department shall register a perinatal facility as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility under the program if the facility demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department that the facility holds a verification as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility from the Joint Commission or an equivalent organization, as determined by the department. The department shall establish procedures for a perinatal facility to report a verification described in this subsection to the department. (2) A perinatal facility seeking to register as a level I, II, III, or IV maternal care facility under the program shall report the verification described in subsection (1) to the department once every 3 years on a form and in a manner required by the department. (3) The department shall publish and update on its website a list of each perinatal facility for which the department has registered under the program. The department shall update the list within 30 days after registering a perinatal facility under the program. The list must include the name of the perinatal facility and the facility?s maternal level of care, as confirmed by the department under the program. The department shall not list a perinatal facility?s name or maternal level of care on the department?s website if the perinatal facility is not registered under the program. (4) In developing procedures for reporting a verification described in subsection (1), the department shall consult with recognized entities that are involved in providing services in a perinatal facility, including the Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative, the Michigan Health and Hospital Association, the Michigan Council for Maternal Child and Health, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American College of Nurse Midwives. The department shall enter into a partnership with the maternal levels of care verification program established by the Joint Commission and the maternal care obstetric care consensus established by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for purposes of the program. (5) The department may provide on-site technical assistance to a perinatal facility that is seeking a verification described in subsection (1) or to register under the program. (6) Subject to appropriation, the department may provide an incentive payment to a perinatal facility that registers with the department under the program. The department shall consider all of the following criteria for the award of an incentive payment: (a) Data collection and reporting at the perinatal facility. (b) Patient volume at the perinatal facility. (c) Practice guidelines at the perinatal facility. (d) The perinatal facility?s coordination with and the referral of a patient to and from another facility. (e) The perinatal facility?s implementation of safety bundles. (7) As used in this section: (a) ?Perinatal facility? means a hospital licensed under article 17 that provides maternal care. (b) ?Program? means the program described in subsection (1). Clerk of the House of Representatives Secretary of the Senate Approved___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Governor |
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