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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