S 3545
115th Congress
Senate
Health
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2018
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 3, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6496-6497)
Oct 3, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2018
This bill allows the home confinement requirement for home health services to be waived under Medicare and Medicare Advantage. 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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6496-6497)
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