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HOUSE 1682116th CongressReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2019

Last Action
3/13/2019

Actions

  • 2019-03-13Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  • 2019-03-12Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  • 2019-03-12Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2019-03-12Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2019-03-12Introduced in House
  • 2019-03-12Introduced in House

CRS Summary

As of 2019-03-12 (00)

Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2019

This bill deems an individual receiving outpatient observation services in a hospital as an inpatient for purposes of satisfying the three-day inpatient hospital-stay requirement with respect to Medicare coverage of skilled nursing facility services.

Cosponsors (20)

  • Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
  • SANFORD BISHOP (D-GA)
  • Ro Khanna (D-CA)
  • Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
  • LLOYD DOGGETT (D-TX)
  • JERROLD NADLER (D-NY)
  • ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA)
  • David Cicilline (D-RI)
  • ROSA DELAURO (D-CT)
  • BETTY MCCOLLUM (D-MN)
  • NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
  • Theodore Deutch (D-FL)
  • Scott Peters (D-CA)
  • JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
  • RICK LARSEN (D-WA)
  • Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
  • John Garamendi (D-CA)
  • DAVID PRICE (D-NC)
  • Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
  • Chellie Pingree (D-ME)

Subjects

  • Health care coverage and access
  • Home and outpatient care
  • Hospital care
  • Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
  • Medicare
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