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HR 626 115th Congress House

Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include recreational therapy among the therapy modalities that constitute an intensive rehabilitation therap… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include recreational therapy among the therapy modalities that constitute an intensive rehabilitation therapy program in an inpatient rehabilitation hospital or unit.

Introduced: January 24, 2017 Introduced by: Thompson, Glenn Republican · Pennsylvania See on congress.gov
Health Allied health servicesHospital careLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal careMedicare
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Feb 2, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 30, 2017
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H721)
Jan 24, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jan 24, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 2, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, for purposes of determining whether inpatient rehabilitation-facility services are reasonable and necessary under Medicare, to include recreational-therapy services among the therapeutic modalities that constitute an intensive rehabilitation-therapy program.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 626: Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-626/
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"H.R. 626: Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-626/.
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H.R. 626, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-626/.
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