Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2017

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

SBD BrownSponsor

23 cosponsors · 18 D, 4 R, 1 I

SCR Collins SCR Capito BND Nelson EMD Markey JRD Reed EWD Warren BCD Cardin AFD Franken AKD Klobuchar CMD Murphy JER Ernst JSD Shaheen CCD Coons SWD Whitehouse DSD Stabenow CGR Grassley HHD Heitkamp RBD Blumenthal GPD Peters TBD Baldwin AKI King TSD Smith PLD Leahy

3 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to deem an individual receiving outpatient observation services in a hospital to be an inpatient for purposes of satisfying the three-day inpatient hospital-stay requirement with respect to Medicare coverage of skilled nursing facility services.