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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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