HR 1421
115th Congress
House
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 2017
Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 16, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 10, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 8, 2017
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.
Mar 8, 2017
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Related & companion bills
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Bill text
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Committees of jurisdiction
4
Cosponsors
56
D
Lynch, Stephen F.
D
Matsui, Doris O.
D
Carson, André
Rothfus, Keith
D
Cleaver, Emanuel
D
Velázquez, Nydia M.
D
Beyer, Donald S.
D
Larsen, Rick
D
Khanna, Ro
Coffman, Mike
D
Meng, Grace
D
Adams, Alma S.
D
Smith, Adam
D
Foster, Bill
D
Doggett, Lloyd
D
Welch, Peter
Faso, John
D
Nadler, Jerrold
CROWLEY, JOSEPH
R
Amodei, Mark E.
R
Smucker, Lloyd
R
Stefanik, Elise M.
D
Bera, Ami
Esty, Elizabeth
D
Beatty, Joyce
D
Himes, James A.
D
Schiff, Adam B.
D
Clark, Katherine M.
D
Jeffries, Hakeem S.
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
D
Garamendi, John
D
Peters, Scott H.
Reichert, David
D
Takano, Mark
D
Brownley, Julia
Delaney, John
D
Titus, Dina
D
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Barletta, Lou
D
McGovern, James P.
D
Frankel, Lois
D
Pingree, Chellie
D
Moore, Gwen
D
Kaptur, Marcy
D
Pocan, Mark
Bishop, Mike
D
Larson, John B.
D
Cohen, Steve
Lujan Grisham, Michelle
D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1421: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1421/
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