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This joint resolution would block a Medicare rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for 2025. In simple terms, Congress is saying it does not approve the rule that updates payment rates and other requirements for home health care, and if the resolution becomes law, that Medicare rule would be canceled and have no effect.
- It targets a CMS rule published on November 7, 2024, about the 2025 Medicare home health payment system.
- The rule includes changes to home health payment rates, quality reporting rules, and the value-based purchasing program.
- It also covers updates for home intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) items and services.
- If Congress approves this resolution, the CMS rule would not go into effect.
Official Summaries
This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Medicare Program; Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Rate Update; HH Quality Reporting Program Requirements; HH Value-Based Purchasing Expanded Model Requirements; Home Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) Items and Services Rate Update; and Other Medicare Policies, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on November 7, 2024.
The rule sets Medicare payment rates for 2025 for home health services, disposable negative pressure wound therapy (dNPWT) devices, and intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) items and services. It also specifies changes to reporting and participation requirements for providers of home health services and long-term care facilities under Medicare, including a requirement that long-term care facilities report additional data regarding acute respiratory illnesses.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 58 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 58
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services relating to ``Medicare Program; Calendar Year (CY)
2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Rate Update; HH
Quality Reporting Program Requirements; HH Value-Based Purchasing
Expanded Model Requirements; Home Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG)
Items and Services Rate Update; and Other Medicare Policies''.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 12, 2025
Mr. Clyde submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services relating to ``Medicare Program; Calendar Year (CY)
2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Rate Update; HH
Quality Reporting Program Requirements; HH Value-Based Purchasing
Expanded Model Requirements; Home Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG)
Items and Services Rate Update; and Other Medicare Policies''.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the
rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relating
to ``Medicare Program; Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Home Health Prospective
Payment System (HH PPS) Rate Update; HH Quality Reporting Program
Requirements; HH Value-Based Purchasing Expanded Model Requirements;
Home Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) Items and Services Rate Update;
and Other Medicare Policies'' (89 Fed. Reg. 88354 (November 7, 2024)),
and such rule shall have no force or effect.
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