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Medicare Home Health — Benefits and Payments (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date April 12, 2004
Report Number RS21814
Report Type Report
Authors Jennifer Boulanger, Domestic Social Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Medicare pays for unlimited care in the home as long as the following criteria are met: the beneficiary is homebound, in need of skilled care on an intermittent basis, and under the care of a physician. Congress, in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) made a number of changes to home health agency payments including changing the update time frame from a federal fiscal year basis to a calendar year basis. MMA also provided a temporary payment add-on of 5 percent for home care provided to beneficiaries in a rural area.