HR 1571 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015

Introduced Mar 24, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Joe Courtney D-CT

Latest action · Apr 7, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

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IntroducedMar 24, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to deem an individual receiving outpatient observation services in a hospital to be an inpatient with respect to satisfying the three-day inpatient hospital requirement in order to entitle the individual to Medicare coverage of any post-hospital extended care services in a skilled nursing facility.

Cosponsors 124

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 24, 2015 to Dec 7, 2016; 21 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-NY	Brian Higgins	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Mar 24, 2015
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-OR	Kurt Schrader	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-FL	Lois Frankel	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Mar 24, 2015
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Mar 24, 2015
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating	Original	Mar 24, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Apr 14, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Apr 14, 2015
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		Apr 14, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Apr 14, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Apr 14, 2015
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Apr 14, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Apr 14, 2015
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Apr 23, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Apr 23, 2015
R-OR	Greg Walden		Apr 23, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis		Apr 23, 2015
R-PA	Lou Barletta		Apr 23, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Apr 23, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Apr 23, 2015
R-NY	Tom Reed		Apr 23, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus		Apr 30, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Apr 30, 2015
R-MI	Mike Bishop		Apr 30, 2015
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Apr 30, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Apr 30, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		May 12, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		May 12, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck		May 12, 2015
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		May 12, 2015
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		May 12, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		May 12, 2015
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 12, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		May 12, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 19, 2015
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		May 19, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack		May 19, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		May 19, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		May 19, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jun 2, 2015
D-GA	John Lewis		Jun 2, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jun 2, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jun 10, 2015
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Jun 10, 2015
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jun 10, 2015
R-PA	Keith J. Rothfus		Jun 10, 2015
R-FL	Richard B. Nugent		Jun 10, 2015
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Jun 10, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jun 16, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jun 16, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jun 16, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jun 16, 2015
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Jun 25, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jun 25, 2015
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Jun 25, 2015
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Jun 25, 2015
R-IA	David Young		Jul 7, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jul 7, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Jul 13, 2015
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Jul 13, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jul 21, 2015
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jul 21, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Jul 21, 2015
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jul 23, 2015
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jul 29, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jul 29, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Jul 29, 2015
D-NY	Steve Israel		Jul 29, 2015
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Sep 8, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Sep 8, 2015
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Sep 8, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Sep 30, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Sep 30, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Oct 6, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Oct 26, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Oct 26, 2015
D-CA	John Garamendi		Oct 26, 2015
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Oct 26, 2015
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Nov 3, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Nov 3, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Nov 3, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Nov 3, 2015
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Nov 3, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Nov 3, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr		Nov 3, 2015
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Nov 5, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		Nov 16, 2015
D-CA	Lois Capps		Nov 16, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Dec 1, 2015
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Dec 1, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Dec 8, 2015
D-NC	David E. Price		Dec 8, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Dec 8, 2015
D-IN	André Carson		Dec 11, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Dec 11, 2015
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Dec 17, 2015
D-CT	James A. Himes		Jan 12, 2016
D-NE	Brad Ashford		Mar 22, 2016
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Mar 22, 2016
R-PA	Scott Perry		Mar 22, 2016
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Apr 12, 2016
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Apr 12, 2016
D-GA	David Scott		May 24, 2016
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		May 25, 2016
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		May 27, 2016
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Sep 9, 2016
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Nov 15, 2016
D-CA	Ami Bera		Dec 7, 2016

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Mar 24, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 7, 2015
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Mar 24, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 27, 2015

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 7, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 27, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 24, 2015Introduced in House
Mar 24, 2015Referred 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.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 49, March 24, 2015, page H1901.

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 843	Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015	Related bill	Mar 24, 2015
HR 1421	Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2017	Reintroduced Bill	Mar 16, 2017

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: 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.
Short Titles as Introduced: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 24, 2015Introduced in House

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