[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4902 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4902

To extend the temporary increase in payments under the Medicare Program 
          for home health services furnished in a rural area.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2004

Mr. Walden of Oregon (for himself, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, 
   Mr. Burr, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Kind, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. McHugh, Mr. 
   McIntyre, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Peterson of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Ryun of Kansas, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Towns, 
    Mr. Boucher, Mr. Lucas of Oklahoma, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. Bass, Mr. 
Sandlin, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Renzi, Mr. Hefley, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, 
  Mr. Ross, Mr. Ney, Mrs. Emerson, and Mr. Alexander) introduced the 
following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the temporary increase in payments under the Medicare Program 
          for home health services furnished in a rural area.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Rural Home Health Services 
Improvement Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. TWO-YEAR EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY MEDICARE PAYMENT INCREASE FOR 
              HOME HEALTH SERVICES FURNISHED IN A RURAL AREA.

    Section 421 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and 
Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173; 117 Stat. 2283; 42 
U.S.C. 1395fff note) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``one-year'' and 
        inserting ``temporary''; and
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``2005'' and inserting 
        ``2007''.
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