Home Health Care News June 22, 2023
Andrew Donlan

The Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2023 was introduced Thursday. Its largest objective is to prevent further cuts to home health payments in 2024 and beyond.

The bill, if passed, would also strip the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of some of its payment-rate setting power and force the The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to consider Medicare Advantage (MA) payment rates in its reports.

Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) – two long-time champions of home-based care – introduced the bill. A similarly structured bill was introduced in the Senate last July, and introduced in the house three days later.

“Its focus is to restrict CMS’ authority to make permanent and temporary adjustments,...

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