S 433 116th Congress Senate

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

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

Introduced: July 30, 2019 Introduced by: Collins, Susan M. Republican · Maine See on congress.gov

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

Feb 11, 2019

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

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

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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Bennet, Michael F.

Colorado · Feb 4, 2020

Lankford, James

Oklahoma · Oct 15, 2019

Klobuchar, Amy

Minnesota · Sep 24, 2019

Capito, Shelley Moore

West Virginia · Sep 18, 2019

Markey, Edward J.

Massachusetts · Sep 17, 2019

Smith, Tina

Minnesota · Sep 17, 2019

Heinrich, Martin

New Mexico · Sep 16, 2019

Cramer, Kevin

North Dakota · Sep 12, 2019

Rosen, Jacky

Nevada · Sep 9, 2019

Peters, Gary C.

Michigan · Jul 31, 2019

Arkansas · Jun 25, 2019

Blackburn, Marsha

Tennessee · May 16, 2019

Scott, Tim

South Carolina · May 8, 2019

Young, Todd

Indiana · Apr 1, 2019

Merkley, Jeff

Oregon · Mar 28, 2019

Hassan, Margaret Wood

New Hampshire · Mar 25, 2019

Cassidy, Bill

Louisiana · Feb 11, 2019

Kennedy, John

Louisiana · Feb 11, 2019

Paul, Rand

Kentucky · Feb 11, 2019

Shaheen, Jeanne

New Hampshire · Feb 11, 2019

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 433: Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-433/

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