S 569
113th Congress
Senate
Health
Health care coverage and access
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
Introduced: March 14, 2013
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 14, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 14, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward the three-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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