S 4137 · 118th Congress · Health
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2024
Bill Progress
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Introduced2
Committee3
Senate Vote4
House5
EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.(2024-04-17)
Plain Language Summary
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Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2024 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.)…
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Cosponsors (3)
2 Democrats1 Republican