Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Jun 12, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
IntroducedJun 12, 2025
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Passed one chamber—
Passed both—
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 90 words.
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.)
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee - Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 2 of 94 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 226 words
- Latest action
- Jun 12, 2025: 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.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Related, per CRS or House · 1
- 119th S. 4641 Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2026 R · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]