Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2004

Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to provide for a two-year extension of the temporary Medicare payment increase for home health services furnished in a rural area.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2659 Introduced in Senate (IS)]


108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2659

To extend the temporary increase in payments under the medicare program 
          for home health services furnished in a rural area.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 2004

  Ms. Collins (for herself, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Bond, Mr. Feingold, Mr. 
Thomas, Mr. Conrad, and Mr. Burns) introduced the following bill; which 
        was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the temporary increase in payments under the medicare program 
          for home health services furnished in a rural area.

    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 ``Medicare Rural Home Health Services 
Improvement Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. TWO-YEAR EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY MEDICARE PAYMENT INCREASE FOR 
              HOME HEALTH SERVICES FURNISHED IN A RURAL AREA.

    Section 421 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and 
Modernization Act of 2003 (42 U.S.C. 1395fff note) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``one-year'' and 
        inserting ``temporary''; and
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``2005'' and inserting 
        ``2007''.
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