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S 598 108th Congress Senate

David Jayne Medicare Homebound Modernization Act of 2003

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a clarification of the definition of homebound for purposes of determining eligibility fo… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a clarification of the definition of homebound for purposes of determining eligibility for home health services under the medicare program.

Introduced: March 11, 2003 Introduced by: Collins, Susan M. Republican · Maine See on congress.gov
Health DisabledHome care servicesMedicareSocial Welfare
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Mar 11, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 11, 2003
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3547-3548)
Mar 11, 2003
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
David Jayne Medicare Homebound Modernization Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the definition of homebound for purposes of determining Medicare eligibility for home health services. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from disqualifying from consideration as confined to the home, based on the purpose, frequency, or duration of the absences from the home, any individual who: (1) has been certified by a physician as having a permanent and severe condition that will not improve which requires the individual to receive assistance from another individual with at least three out of five activities of daily living for the rest of the individual's life; and (2) requires one or more described home health services to achieve a functional condition giving the individual the ability to leave the home.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 598: David Jayne Medicare Homebound Modernization Act of 2003. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-598/
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"S. 598: David Jayne Medicare Homebound Modernization Act of 2003." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-598/.
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S. 598, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-598/.
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