[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 839 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 839

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the rural 
   add-on payment in the Medicare home health benefit, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 23, 2015

  Ms. Collins (for herself and Ms. Cantwell) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the rural 
   add-on payment in the Medicare home health benefit, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Preserve Access to Medicare Rural 
Home Health Services Act of 2015''.
     (a) Rural Add-On Extension.--Section 421(a) of the Medicare 
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-173; 117 Stat. 2283), as amended by section 5201(b) of the 
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-171; 120 Stat. 46) and 
section 3131(c) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(Public Law 111-148; 124 Stat. 428), is amended by striking ``2016'' 
each place it appears and inserting ``2021''.
    (b) Revision of Home Health Outlier Adjustment.--Section 
1895(b)(5)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395fff(b)(5)(A)) 
is amended, in the second sentence, by inserting ``(or, in the case of 
each of 2016 through 2020, 2.25 percent)'' after ``2.5 percent''.
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