Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-day inpat… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-day inpatient hospital stay requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare, and for other purposes.
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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.
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.)
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- AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
- DIRECT SUPPLY, INC.
- CHAMBER HILL STRATEGIES
- MEDLINE
- AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
Cite this page
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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