Bicameral, Bipartisan Effort Launched to Block CMS Home Health PPS Rate Cuts

Yesterday, in a strong bipartisan effort, Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Robert Casey (D-Penn.), Kit Bond (R-Mo.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), introduced the Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2007, designed to block the 2008-2011 regulatory cuts in Medicare home health payment rates and to institute a rational process…