[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 11 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 11

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

                            January 4, 2005

    Mr. Walden of Oregon (for himself, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Peterson of 
    Pennsylvania, Mr. King of Iowa, Ms. Herseth, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. 
 Marshall, Mr. McNulty, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Towns, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, 
Mr. Ney, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Kind, Mr. Ross, Mr. Bradley of 
 New Hampshire, and Mr. Hall) 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 2005''.

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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