[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 353 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 353

  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

                           February 13, 2017

  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 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE HOME HEALTH RURAL ADD-ON.

    (a) In General.--Section 421 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), section 3131(c) of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148; 124 
Stat. 428), and section 210 of the Medicare Access and CHIP 
Reauthorization Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-10; 129 Stat. 87), is 
amended by striking ``January 1, 2018'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``January 1, 2023''.
    (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 2018 through 2022, 2.25 percent)'' after ``2.5 percent''.
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