HR 4313 · in committee · significant
Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act
- healthcare
What this bill does
- Extends a Medicare program that allows hospitals to treat certain patients at home instead of in hospital beds through 2030.
- Affects Medicare patients receiving emergency or inpatient hospital care, and hospitals participating in the program.
- Requires a study comparing home-based care to traditional inpatient settings on quality, costs, and patient demographics.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
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How might expanding hospital-at-home services affect Medicare costs compared to traditional inpatient hospital stays?
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Which types of patients or medical conditions should be eligible for home-based hospital care, and why?
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What outcomes would the required study need to show for hospitals and Medicare to expand this program beyond 2030?
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Sponsor · R-FL-16
Vern Buchanan
Citizen cosponsors
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In Congress
8/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-12-02
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Legislative timeline
2025-12-02 · senate · IntroReferral
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
2025-12-01 · house · Floor
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4935)
2025-12-01 · house · Floor
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2025-12-01 · Floor
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4935)
2025-12-01 · house · Floor
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4313.
2025-12-01 · house · Floor
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4935-4937)
2025-12-01 · house · Floor
Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2025-10-31 · house · Calendars
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 311.
2025-10-31 · house · Committee
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-359.
2025-10-31 · Committee
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-359.
2025-09-17 · house · Committee
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.
2025-09-17 · house · Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
2025-07-10 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
2025-07-10 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-07-10 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House

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