Bill > S433

Introduced Session

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve home health payment reforms under the Medicare program. This bill makes a series of changes relating to payment and coverage of home health services under Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA). Specifically, the bill allows the home-confinement requirement (also known as the homebound requirement) for home health services to be waived under Medicare and MA. Currently, as a condition of eligibility for such services, a physician must certify that an individual has difficulty leaving home without assistance (e.g., a wheelchair, special transportation, or help from another person) due to an illness or injury. The bill also alters the payment methodology under the Medicare prospective payment system for home health services, including by eliminating the requirement that such methodology include certain behavioral assumptions regarding the implementation of specified changes to units of payment and case-mix adjustment factors.

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Susan Collins (R)*,  Michael Bennet (D),  Marsha Blackburn (R),  John Boozman (R),  Richard Burr (R),  Shelley Moore Capito (R),  Ben Cardin (D),  Bill Cassidy (R),  Kevin Cramer (R),  Dianne Feinstein (D),  Maggie Hassan (D),  Martin Heinrich (D),  Doug Jones (D),  John Neely Kennedy (R),  Angus King (I),  Amy Klobuchar (D),  James Lankford (R),  Patrick Leahy (D),  Joe Manchin (I),  Ed Markey (D),  Jeff Merkley (D),  Rand Paul (R),  David Perdue (R),  Gary Peters (D),  Pat Roberts (R),  Jacky Rosen (D),  Marco Rubio (R),  Tim Scott (R),  Jeanne Shaheen (D),  Kyrsten Sinema (I),  Tina Smith (D),  Debbie Stabenow (D),  Tom Udall (D),  Todd Young (R), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1167) (on 02/11/2019)

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