Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
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Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
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.)
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.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3954: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3954/
"H.R. 3954: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3954/.
H.R. 3954, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3954/.
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