HOUSE 3650117th CongressReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2021
- Last Action
- 6/1/2021
Actions
- 2021-06-01Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2021-06-01Referred 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.
- 2021-06-01Referred 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.
- 2021-06-01Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2021-06-01Introduced in House
- 2021-06-01Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2021-06-01 (00)
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2021
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)
- Ron Estes (R-KS)
- Suzan DelBene (D-WA)
- JAMES MCGOVERN (D-MA)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- Paul Tonko (D-NY)
- JERROLD NADLER (D-NY)
- MIKE DOYLE (D-PA)
- Theodore Deutch (D-FL)
- NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Mary Scanlon (D-PA)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
- BETTY MCCOLLUM (D-MN)
- Dina Titus (D-NV)
- Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Susan Wild (D-PA)
Subjects
- Health care coverage and access
- Home and outpatient care
- Hospital care
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicare
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