BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 5642: Medicaid clients/metrics

Improving performance on maternal health and preventative cancer screening metrics for medicaid clients.

Summary

Directs the Health Care Authority (HCA) to develop education and outreach materials for Medicaid clients to encourage better health outcomes and an implementation plan to incentivize Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to improve their performance measures for breast and cervical cancer screenings, the timeliness of prenatal care, and postpartum care by December 31, 2025.
Directs HCA to develop billing guide instructions for fee-for-service providers and amend MCO contracts to encourage using the code 0500f for earlier identification of pregnant women by December 31, 2025.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5642), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to improving performance on maternal health and preventative cancer screening metrics for medicaid clients;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 5642 (2023–24) Indian tribes/extradition · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5642 (2021–22) Affordable housing/REET · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5642 (2019–20) Intramuscular needling · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5642 (2017–18) Job creation incentive pilot · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5642 (2015–16) Patients w/ devel disability · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5642 (2013–14) School construction/funding · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5642 (2011–12) Applied behavior analysis · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5642 (2009–10) State route 164 · Enacted · Chapter 262, Laws of 2009