[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 300 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 300

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2005

 Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Lugar, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. 
Burns, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Bond, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Santorum, 
 Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Conrad, and Mr. Leahy) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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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 Payment 
Fairness 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 (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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