S 753 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2019

Introduced Mar 12, 2019 Originated Senate Sponsor Sherrod Brown D-OH

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 12, 2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMar 12, 2019
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2019

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.

Cosponsors 23

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 12, 2019 to Nov 14, 2019, with 18 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-MNAmy KlobucharOriginalMar 12, 2019
I-MEAngus S. King Jr.OriginalMar 12, 2019
D-MDBenjamin L. CardinOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-DEChristopher A. CoonsOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-MIDebbie StabenowOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-MAEdward J. MarkeyOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-MAElizabeth WarrenOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-MIGary C. PetersOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-RIJack ReedOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-NHJeanne ShaheenOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-CAKamala D. HarrisOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-NHMargaret Wood HassanOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-VTPatrick J. LeahyOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-CTRichard BlumenthalOriginalMar 12, 2019
D-RISheldon WhitehouseOriginalMar 12, 2019
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Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 12, 2019Introduced in Senate
  2. Mar 12, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 1682Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2019Related billMar 13, 2019

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Mar 12, 2019Introduced in Senate

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