A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to emergency inpatient hospital services furnished outside the United States.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize payment to an individual entitled to hospital insurance benefits under the medicare program for emergency inpatient hospital services furnished outside the United States if such hospital was closer to, or substantially more accessible from, the place at which the emergency occurred than the nearest adequately equipped hospital within the United States.