Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary 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.
What just happenedMay 9, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMay 8, 2019
- May 9, 2019Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - May 8, 2019IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Energy and Commerce Committee - May 8, 2019IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Ways and Means Committee - May 8, 2019IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- May 8, 2019IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House