Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2023
- Last Action
- 12/17/2024
Actions
- 2024-12-17Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2023-08-11Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2023-08-04Referred 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.
- 2023-08-04Referred 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.
- 2023-08-04Introduced in House
- 2023-08-04Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2023-08-04 (00)
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2023
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)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- JERROLD NADLER (D-NY)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Jared Golden (D-ME)
- Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY)
- ZOE LOFGREN (D-CA)
- Maxwell Frost (D-FL)
- John Rutherford (R-FL)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- DIANA DEGETTE (D-CO)
- Madeleine Dean (D-PA)
- Tracey Mann (R-KS)
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Mary Scanlon (D-PA)
- Paul Tonko (D-NY)
- Don Bacon (R-NE)
- Joe Neguse (D-CO)
Subjects
- Health care coverage and access
- Home and outpatient care
- Hospital care
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicare
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