Tag: Rep. Brett Guthrie

Key Legislation Introduced to Help Elderly and Disabled Remain in their Homes

Two pieces of bipartisan legislation that would make it easier for the elderly and disabled to receive health care in their homes and to protect against financial catastrophe have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. The EMPOWER (“Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources, and Care) Act (S. 548…

Key Medicaid Home Health Bill Advances in Congress

Bipartisan legislation to reauthorize a federal demonstration program to help Medicaid patients receive long-term care in their own homes and communities won approval on September 11, 2018 from the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Health in the House of Representatives. The EMPOWER (Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunity for Widespread Equity, Resources) Care Act (H.R. 5306)…

Trump Signs EVV Delay into Law

President Donald J. Trump on Monday evening signed into law H.R. 6042, a bipartisan bill which passed Congress in July, allowing states to delay electronic visit verification in Medicaid-reimbursed care services for one year. Congress mandated electronic visit verification (EVV), to begin in January 2019, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, in order to…

Electronic Visit Verification Delay Passes Congress

The United States Senate unanimously approved bipartisan legislation on Tuesday, July 17, to delay until 2020 the start of the electronic visit verification program to document when personal care services are provided. An identical bill passed the House of Representatives last month and now the legislation goes to the White House for President Trump to…