United States · Bill · S
S. 839 (114th)
Preserve Access to Medicare Rural Home Health Services Act of 2015
Introduced
23 March 2015
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Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1711-1712)
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12 August 2025
Summary
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.
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Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 23 March 2015
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 23 March 2015
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 23 March 2015
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/839
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/839