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HR 4313 · in committee · significant

Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act

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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    How might expanding hospital-at-home services affect Medicare costs compared to traditional inpatient hospital stays?

  2. 02

    Which types of patients or medical conditions should be eligible for home-based hospital care, and why?

  3. 03

    What outcomes would the required study need to show for hospitals and Medicare to expand this program beyond 2030?

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Vern Buchanan

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Introduced 2025-12-02

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-12-02 · senate · IntroReferral

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  2. 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)

  3. 2025-12-01 · house · Floor

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  4. 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)

  5. 2025-12-01 · house · Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4313.

  6. 2025-12-01 · house · Floor

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4935-4937)

  7. 2025-12-01 · house · Floor

    Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  8. 2025-10-31 · house · Calendars

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 311.

  9. 2025-10-31 · house · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-359.

  10. 2025-10-31 · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-359.

  11. 2025-09-17 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.

  12. 2025-09-17 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  13. 2025-07-10 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

  14. 2025-07-10 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  15. 2025-07-10 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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