Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 6/12/2025
Actions
- 2025-06-12Referred 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.
- 2025-06-12Referred 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.
- 2025-06-12Introduced in House
- 2025-06-12Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2025-06-12 (00)
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
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 (SNF) services. (Generally, individuals must have been an inpatient at a hospital for at least three days in order to qualify for SNF services. An individual's time spent under observation at a hospital for purposes of determining whether the individual should be admitted does not count towards this requirement.)
Cosponsors (20)
- Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
- Suzan DelBene (D-WA)
- Ron Estes (R-KS)
- Jared Golden (D-ME)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
- Donald Davis (D-NC)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Zachary Nunn (R-IA)
- Linda Sánchez (D-CA)
- Thomas Suozzi (D-NY)
- Adrian Smith (R-NE)
- Deborah Ross (D-NC)
- Donald Beyer (D-VA)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)
- Timothy Kennedy (D-NY)
- Julie Johnson (D-TX)
- Bradley Schneider (D-IL)
- Steven Horsford (D-NV)
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