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H.R. 2573: Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

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H.R. 2573: Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

116th Congress · introduced 2019-05-08 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-05-08 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

Plain summary

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019 This bill makes a series of changes relating to payment and coverage of home health services under Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA). Specifically, the bill allows the home-confinement requirement (also known as the homebound requirement) for home health services to be waived under Medicare and MA. Currently, as a condition of eligibility for such services, a physician must certify that an individual has difficulty leaving home without assistance (e.g., a wheelchair, special transportation, or help from another person) due to an illness or injury. The bill also alters the payment methodology under the Medicare prospective payment system for home health services, including by eliminating the requirement that such methodology include certain behavioral assumptions regarding the implementation of specified changes to units of payment and case-mix adjustment factors.

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Official text

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7] · 158 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Vern Buchanan (R-FL), John B. Larson (D-CT), Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), James Comer (R-KY), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jason Smith (R-MO), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Mike Johnson (R-LA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Chris Pappas (D-NH), John H. Rutherford (R-FL), Mike Thompson (D-CA) and 98 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7] reported raising $2.3 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr2573 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116