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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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve home health payment reforms under the Medicare program.
USA115th CongressS-3545| Senate
| Updated: 10/3/2018
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.
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresDepartment of Health and Human ServicesGovernment information and archivesHealth care costs and insuranceHome and outpatient careMedicare