A bill 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 requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare.

This bill would change Medicare rules so that time a patient spends receiving observation services as an outpatient in a hospital would count toward the 3-day hospital stay requirement needed to qualify for Medicare coverage of skilled nursing facility care. Currently, only inpatient days count toward that 3-day requirement. No official summary is available for this bill.

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