Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2019

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

JCD CourtneySponsor

60 cosponsors · 51 D, 9 R

GTR Thompson SBD Bishop DCD Cicilline RDD DeLauro LDD Doggett TDD Deutch RKD Khanna BMD McCollum JND Nadler SPD Peters JSD Schakowsky ASD Schiff ESR Stefanik NVD Velázquez JGD Garamendi RLD Larsen DWD Wasserman Schultz RGD Grijalva DPD Price CPD Pingree SDD DelBene PTD Tonko MDD Doyle MPD Pocan MSD Scanlon EBD Blumenauer JBD Brownley WCD Clay JHD Himes JRD Raskin SWR Watkins CLD Lamb JND Neguse MQD Quigley DTD Titus PDD DeFazio RKD Kind GMD Moore RGD Gallego SCD Cohen SMD Maloney DDD DeGette DHD Heck FSR Sensenbrenner JMD McGovern JGD Golden PWD Welch JHD Harder SPR Perry ABD Bera AHD Hastings BSR Steil GRR Reschenthaler JHD Huffman ALD Lawson LFD Frankel GMD Meng JRR Rutherford ADD Delgado LGR Gooden

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

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 services.