Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
Summary
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.)
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 12, 2025
Last action Jun 12, 2025
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Committee
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Jun 12, 2025
Committee
Referred 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.
lower
Jun 12, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 47 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Joe Courtney
DDemocratic
Co
Adelita S. Grijalva
DDemocratic
Co
Adrian Smith
RRepublican
Co
Bradley Scott Schneider
DDemocratic
Co
Chellie Pingree
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher R. Deluzio
DDemocratic
Co
Cleo Fields
DDemocratic
Co
Daniel Meuser
RRepublican
Co
Deborah K. Ross
DDemocratic
Co
Don Bacon
RRepublican
Co
Donald G. Davis
DDemocratic
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