Home Health Stabilization Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Hern (OK)
Introduced
Summary
Stabilize Medicare home health payments for 2026 and 2027 by requiring CMS to offset proposed rate cuts and to base those years' 30-day national, standardized payment rates on the 2025 level. The bill would limit certain automatic offsets so the required positive adjustment fully counters the combined proposed reductions.
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- Seniors and home health patients: Helps preserve access to home health services by preventing the payment reductions proposed for 2026 and 2027.
- Home health agencies and providers: Requires a positive adjustment that would fully offset a combined ~9.1% reduction proposed for 2026, roughly 4.1% permanent plus 5.0% temporary, boosting near-term payments compared with the proposed rule.
- CMS operations and rulemaking: Directs CMS to set 2026 and 2027 rates using the 2025 baseline, allows implementation by program instruction or other agency action, and includes a clause that does not signal congressional approval or disapproval of the agency's prior methodology.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Steadier Medicare home health rates for 2026–2027
If enacted, Medicare would boost home health payment rates in 2026 and 2027. The bill would require CMS to reverse two planned cuts of 4.059% and 5.0% to the standard 30-day rate. Rates for 2026 and 2027 would be based on the 2025 rate and could not include those specific reductions. CMS would not count these added payments against its spending tests for those years or offset them with extra cuts. This could help keep your access to Medicare-covered home health care steady.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Hern (OK)
OK • R
Cosponsors
Sewell
AL • D
Sponsored 9/4/2025
Torres (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 9/10/2025
Gimenez
FL • R
Sponsored 9/17/2025
Johnson (TX)
TX • D
Sponsored 9/17/2025
Bacon
NE • R
Sponsored 9/17/2025
Bynum
OR • D
Sponsored 9/17/2025
Moran
TX • R
Sponsored 9/17/2025
Vindman
VA • D
Sponsored 9/17/2025
Carter (GA)
GA • R
Sponsored 9/30/2025
Mann
KS • R
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Magaziner
RI • D
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Schmidt
KS • R
Sponsored 10/21/2025
Cohen
TN • D
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Kean
NJ • R
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Nadler
NY • D
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Rogers (AL)
AL • R
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Pfluger
TX • R
Sponsored 11/25/2025
Gillen
NY • D
Sponsored 12/15/2025
Pou
NJ • D
Sponsored 1/7/2026
Gottheimer
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/2/2026
Gonzalez, V.
TX • D
Sponsored 3/3/2026
Roll Call Votes
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