Postpartum Medicaid reform, other health bills clear Iowa deadline

DES MOINES- Iowa lawmakers ushered through dozens of potentially consequential health care bills this week ahead of the deadline for bills clear their first committee. Shannon Lundgren, R- Peosta, managed a bill creating a state health-records utility. Mark Costello, R- Imogene, said in a meeting of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee that even with…