Enhancing Skilled Nursing Facilities Act

This bill would change Medicare and Medicaid rules for skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities. It would allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and clinical nurse specialists, working in accordance with State law, to certify that a patient needs skilled nursing facility care, a task now tied to physicians. It would allow residents' health care to be supervised by a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, in addition to a physician, and would let States choose to allow supervision by a clinical nurse specialist under Medicaid. It would also add these clinicians to resident rights provisions, such as being informed about care and decisions on transfers, which currently refer to physicians.

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Sponsors

• Jennifer A. Kiggans Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors