Summary

An Act to repeal CMS changes in payment for Home Health care under Medicare.

Background

(b) Voiding of Proposed Case Mix Adjustment- The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not take any action to implement or otherwise carry out provisions contained in the final rule published on August 29, 2007, on pages 49762-49945 of volume 72 of the Federal Register, insofar as such provisions propose to make a case mix adjustment to the standardized payment amounts under the prospective payment system for home health services under section 1895 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395fff) to account for changes in coding that were not related to an underlying change in patient health status. The Secretary shall republish any rates specified in such rule to take into account the application of the previous sentence. The Secretary shall only institute an adjustment under subparagraph (B)(iv) of such section in compliance with subparagraph (D) of such section, as added by subsection (a)(2).

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