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

United States115th CongressS-3545Senate
Updated: Oct 3, 2018

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.

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Timeline

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6496-6497)

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  2. Introduced in Senate

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