Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2026
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Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2026
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.)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4641: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2026. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4641/
"S. 4641: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2026." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4641/.
S. 4641, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4641/.
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