What is hb 1388

View Roll Calls. Mar 6. HLTH - Majority; do pass with amendment s. By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading. Apr By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. May Placed on third reading. Third reading, passed; yeas, 68; nays, 26; absent, 0; excused, 4. View 1st Engrossed View Roll Calls. Jun 1. Jun Jan 8.

Placed on third reading by Rules Committee. Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. View 2nd Engrossed View Roll Calls. Feb HLTC - Majority; do pass. Providing tools allowing you to research pending legislation, stay informed with email alerts, content feeds, and share dynamic reports.

Monitor Legislation or view this same bill number from multiple sessions or take advantage of our national legislative search. View Top 50 Searches. View Top 50 National. Clint Penzo [R] Sen. Bob Ballinger [R]. This bill adds that the regionalized system of care must also decrease the neonatal death rate and pre-term birth rate.

Present law directs the department to consider the feasibility of designing the program to meet certain requirements. This bill adds to those requirements assisting in the regional development, expansion, and maintenance of specialty level II birthing centers in every health region with certified obstetricians and pediatricians available who are trained in the prevention, early diagnoses, treatment, and stabilization of complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

This bill requires the bureau of TennCare, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee and with the assistance of relevant state agencies, to annually report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate concerning the following aspects of quality and outcomes in perinatal care for the last two available fiscal years or calendar years: 1 A description of any initiatives by the managed care organizations to improve key performance indicators of perinatal care outcomes such as maternal deaths, neonatal and fetal perinatal deaths, and pre-term births; and 2 A determination of the effectiveness of managed care organizations' initiatives toward improving perinatal care outcomes to residents in each health region.

This bill requests the code commission to change the heading for Tennessee code annotated from "Care of Newborn Infants" to "Perinatal and Neonatal Care.