H.R. 626 · 115th Congress
Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Glenn Thompson
- Introduced
- 2017-01-24
- Latest action
- 2017-02-02 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Summary
Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, for purposes of determining whether inpatient rehabilitation-facility services are reasonable and necessary under Medicare, to include recreational-therapy services among the therapeutic modalities that constitute an intensive rehabilitation-therapy program.