US Congress Senate Bill 839 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1711-1712)
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Preserve Access to Medicare Rural Home Health Services Act of 2015 This bill amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend through calendar 2020 the payment increase (add-on) for Medicare home health services in rural areas. The ceiling on the total amount of the additional payments or payment adjustments otherwise made in the case of home health outliers with respect to a fiscal year or year is lowered, in the case of each of 2016 through 2020, from 2.5% to 2.25% of the total payments projected or estimated to be made under the prospective payment system for home health services.

Preserve Access to Medicare Rural Home Health Services Act of 2015

Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]

Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1711-1712)

SB2389 (Related) 2015-12-10 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S8604-8605)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/839/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s839/BILLS-114s839is.pdf