US Congress Senate Bill 433 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1167)
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]
Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]	Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. David Perdue [R-GA]
Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]	Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]
Sen. Tim Scott [R-SC]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV]
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-11	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1167)

HB2573 (Same As) 2019-05-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/433/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s433/BILLS-116s433is.pdf