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H.R. 2573 · 116th Congress

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

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158 cosponsors · 88 D, 70 R
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10 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill makes a series of changes relating to payment and coverage of home health services under Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA).

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · May 8, 2019

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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

Latest action (May 9, 2019): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: May 8, 2019

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.