S 839
114th Congress
Senate
Health
Health care coverage and access
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Preserve Access to Medicare Rural Home Health Services Act of 2015
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 23, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1711-1712)
Mar 23, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Preserve Access to Medicare Rural Home Health Services Act of 2015
This bill amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend through calendar 2020 the payment increase (add-on) for Medicare home health services in rural areas.
The ceiling on the total amount of the additional payments or payment adjustments otherwise made in the case of home health outliers with respect to a fiscal year or year is lowered, in the case of each of 2016 through 2020, from 2.5% to 2.25% of the total payments projected or estimated to be made under the prospective payment system for home health services.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1711-1712)
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1