SENATE 568115th CongressRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2017
- Last Action
- 3/8/2017
Actions
- 2017-03-08Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2017-03-08Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2017-03-08 (00)
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2017
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to deem an individual receiving outpatient observation services in a hospital to be 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)
- Susan Collins (R-ME)
- CLARENCE NELSON (D-FL)
- Shelley Capito (R-WV)
- John Reed (D-RI)
- Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Al Franken (D-MN)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Ben Cardin (D-MD)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Christopher Coons (D-DE)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Charles Grassley (R-IA)
- Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Gary Peters (D-MI)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Subjects
- Health care coverage and access
- Home and outpatient care
- Hospital care
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicare
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