Home Health Stabilization Act of 2025

This bill aims to keep Medicare home health services stable. It would block planned Medicare payment cuts to home health agencies in 2026 and 2027 by adding a positive adjustment that fully cancels a 4.059% permanent cut and a 5% temporary cut proposed for 2026, to help protect patient access to care. It also sets the 2026 and 2027 payment rates using the 2025 rate as the starting point and bars certain extra “clawback” adjustments in those years, so providers aren’t penalized later for these protections. The bill says it doesn’t take a side on Medicare’s earlier method for setting these rates.

Key points

• Who is affected: Medicare patients who receive home health care, and home health agencies and their staff.
• What changes: Offsets the proposed 2026 cuts; bases 2026–2027 rates on 2025; and prevents later offsets for the extra payments in those years.
• When: Applies to 2026 and 2027; uses 2025 as the baseline rate year.