To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to place certain limitations on Medicaid payments for home or community-based services.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8114 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8114

To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing 
  a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to 
 place certain limitations on Medicaid payments for home or community-
                            based services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2024

 Mrs. Cammack introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing 
  a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to 
 place certain limitations on Medicaid payments for home or community-
                            based services.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON FINALIZING PROPOSED RULE TO PLACE CERTAIN 
              LIMITATIONS ON MEDICAID PAYMENTS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services may not--
            (1) finalize, implement, or enforce the portion of the 
        proposed rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
        Services titled ``Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid 
        Services'' (88 Fed. Reg. 27960 (May 3, 2023)) related to the 
        proposed requirement at section 441.302(k)(3)(i) of title 42, 
        Code of Federal Regulations that at least 80 percent of all 
        payments made under a State plan under title XIX of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) with respect to homemaker 
        services, home health aide services, and personal care services 
        furnished under a waiver under section 1915(c) of such Act be 
        spent on compensation for direct care workers (as such terms 
        are used for purposes of such proposed rule); or
            (2) promulgate, implement, enforce, or otherwise give 
        effect to any other substantially similar rule that would 
        require a minimum percentage of such payments for such services 
        be spent on such compensation for direct care workers.
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