S 4137
118th Congress
Senate
Health
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2024
Introduced: April 17, 2024
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 17, 2024
Introduced in Senate
Apr 17, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Plain-English summary
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.)
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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