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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve home health payment reforms under the Medicare program.

Introduced: September 18, 2018 Introduced by: Kennedy, John Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 18, 2018
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill 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.

What's happening now September 18, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 3545 Related bill Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2018
  • HR 6932 Identical bill To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve home health payment reforms under the Medicare program.
 Bill text 1 version

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Cassidy, Bill
Louisiana · Sep 18, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3458: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve home health payment reforms under the Medicare program.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-3458/
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