HR 3650
117th 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 2021
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 1, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 1, 2021
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.
Jun 1, 2021
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2021
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 services.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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