2025-2026 Regular Session • US Congress Legislature
HB3954: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
Legislative Summary
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.
Bill History
6/12/2025
Introduced in House
House of Representatives
6/12/2025
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.
House of Representatives
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(6/12/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Ways And Means(House of Representatives)
Sponsors
Democrat: 5
Republican: 2
Primary Sponsor
Joe Courtney
Democrat