3.0.0 1725 2022-11-01T06:32:25Z 2022-11-01T06:32:25Z Senate S 2019-06-05 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-05T17:24:14Z Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act 116 3127 HR 2019-06-06 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2019-06-05 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2019-06-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD N Y000064 Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] Todd Young R IN C. 2019-06-05 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2019-06-12 False T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT 2019-10-16 False S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2019-10-17 False G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2020-02-12 False Health Allied health services Hearing, speech, and vision care Home and outpatient care Medicare Health 00 2019-06-05 Introduced in Senate 2019-06-24T19:50:04Z Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 2019

This bill establishes circumstances under which an occupational therapist may conduct an initial or comprehensive assessment for an individual who is eligible for home health services under Medicare. Specifically, an occupational therapist may conduct the assessment if the physician's referral order does not include skilled nursing care but does include (1) occupational therapy, and (2) physical therapy or speech language pathology.

]]> Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 2019 Display Title Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to permit occupational therapists to conduct the initial assessment visit and complete the comprehensive assessment under a Medicare home health plan of care for certain rehabilitation cases. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1725is/xml/BILLS-116s1725is.xml 2019-06-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.