US HB1571 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

US Congress House Bill 1571 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 103-22)
Status: Introduced on March 24 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-07 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Title

Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015

Sponsors

Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]
Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]
Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]
Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]
Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]
Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]	Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]
Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]
Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Reid Ribble [R-WI]	Rep. Mike Bishop [R-MI]	Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]
Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]
Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]
Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]
Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]
Rep. Richard Nugent [R-FL]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Keith Rothfus [R-PA]
Rep. Sean Duffy [R-WI]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]
Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]
Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]
Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]
Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]
Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Brad Ashford [D-NE]
Rep. Scott Perry [R-PA]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]
Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY]	Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]
Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-24	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-03-24	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-03-24	House	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.
2015-03-24	House	Introduced in House