Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2005

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 109th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

GWR WaldenSponsor

70 cosponsors · 42 D, 28 R

RAR Alexander SBD Bishop JBR Bradley JAR Ann Emerson RHR Hall MHD Hinchey SHD Herseth Sandlin RKD Kind SKR King JMR McHugh MMD McNulty JMD Marshall BNR Ney JPR Peterson EPD Pomeroy MRD Ross ETD Towns TAD Allen DPD Payne JRR Ryun RRR Renzi MMD McIntyre DKD Kildee JOD Oberstar RBD Boucher JMR Miller JCD Conyers BCD Chandler MMD Michaud HWR Wilson GKD Butterfield DDD Davis CPD Peterson TUD Udall JMR Moran BSR Shuster JWR Walsh PDD DeFazio THD Holden RHR Hayes CMR McMorris Rodgers BGD Gordon BJR Jindal TMR McCotter TCR Cole MUD Udall LDD Doggett CMD Melancon JSD Salazar TOR Osborne VSD Snyder CBR Boustany SJD Jackson Lee SOD Ortiz SRD Reyes BSD Stupak BTD Thompson EWR Whitfield DMD Moore MMR McCaul LGR Gohmert KMR Marchant JSR Sweeney BFD Filner JCD Costello RNR Neugebauer BHD Higgins SBD Brown LDD Davis WJD Jefferson

17 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to provide for a two-year extension of the temporary Medicare payment increase for home health services furnished in a rural area.