Mike Levin: “The IPS, Interim Payment System, has been grossly unfair, grossly unfair to low-cost, cost-effective providers in…”

“The IPS, Interim Payment System, has been grossly unfair, grossly unfair to low-cost, cost-effective providers in States, especially States like Michigan. This is a step in the right direction. But I want to express two hopes. Number one, this is not retroactive. A lot of very good, healthy, once healthy, home health agencies have been terribly hurt. I think our system should protect the cost effective and not assist those that are cost ineffective. So I hope if this bill gets to conference that we can look at that issue. Also, the chairman of the subcommittee and I have talked about the entire bill. I hope we can take another look in the way we pay for this. I do not think we should mortgage the future to correct the past or the present. So I rise in support of this bill. It is urgently needed.”