Documentary record · COMMENT PERIOD CLOSED

CY 2027 Home Health PPS proposed rule: comment period closed at 5:00 PM EDT, 31 August

COMMENT PERIOD CLOSED

Event date

August 31, 2026

Jurisdiction

United States

Issuing body

CMS

Action type

COMMENT PERIOD CLOSED

Lifecycle state

COMMENT PERIOD CLOSED

Verification date

1 September 2026

The opportunity to comment has closed. The proposed rule is unchanged in legal effect — it remains proposed, and nothing in it binds until a final rule issues.

What this establishes

  • The rule required comments no later than 5:00 PM EDT on 31 August 2026.
  • At the 1 September snapshot the window is closed and the rule proceeds to final rulemaking.

What this does not establish

  • Anything about what the final rule will contain.
  • That any payment change is in effect.

Why it matters

Recorded to demonstrate the date-engine rule rather than for its substance. This window carried an explicit closing instant, so it closed at a computable moment rather than at the end of a calendar day. A site that treats every deadline as date-only will show this row as open for several hours after it shut — which is why the registry stores the instant where the authority states one and marks the row DATE_ONLY where it does not.

Primary source

Register: data/events.json · record id cms-home-health-comments-closed-2026-08-31.