Congress orders study on infant heart monitors to fight sudden death
H.R. 2168 — BO’s Act · Filed by Rudy Yakym (R-IN) · 13 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study whether home cardiorespiratory monitors—devices that track an infant's heart rate and oxygen levels during sleep—can help prevent sudden unexpected infant death. Within one year, the Secretary must report to Congress on the monitors' effectiveness, accuracy, best practices for infant sleep environments, insurance coverage criteria, and whether they should be covered by public or private health plans.
Why we flagged it
The bill is a straightforward mandate for a government study on infant health technology. It creates no new programs, spending, or regulatory authority—only a fact-finding obligation to inform future policy on a public-health issue (sudden infant death prevention).
What the text implies
- Study findings may influence FDA regulatory classification of home cardiorespiratory monitors, potentially affecting market entry and approval timelines for new devices.
- Report recommendations on insurance coverage could create pressure on CMS and private insurers to expand reimbursement, shifting costs from families to payers.
- Evidence on monitor efficacy may inform state-level safe-sleep guidance and pediatric practice standards, indirectly affecting clinical adoption.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates a fact-finding mechanism on a technology that may reduce sudden unexpected infant death, a leading cause of infant mortality. Parents and families would benefit from evidence-based guidance on monitor effectiveness and potential insurance coverage, improving access to a potentially life-saving tool.
Who stands to gain
- home cardiorespiratory monitor manufacturers
- medical device companies
- pediatric health technology vendors
Named in the bill
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Congress, Public Health Service Act, sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), home cardiorespiratory monitors, CMS, private health insurers
Where it stands
13 cosponsors: 13 Republicans.
- Mar 14, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 14, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $30,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 3 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Rudy Yakym, the sponsor, reported $1,401,759 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Owlet — $30,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,291 characters) on Aug 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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