1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicare Adult Day Services Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Adult day care can offer services, including medical care, rehabilitation therapies, dignified assistance with activities of daily living, nutrition therapy, health monitoring, social interaction, stimulating activities, and transportation, to seniors and people with disabilities at no extra cost to the Medicare program. (2) The care given at adult day services centers under an interdisciplinary team provides seniors, people with disabilities, and their familial caregivers with more care hours and additional services that are critical to keeping patients healthier and in the homes of the patients instead of in a nursing home, and reduces the risk of hospital admission or readmission. 3. Medicare coverage of certified adult day services (a) Medicare certified adult day services benefit (1) Definition Section 1861 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (jjj) Certified adult day services; adult day services provider; certified adult day services center; post-Institutional certified adult day services; certified adult day services spell of illness (1) (A) The term certified adult day services means, subject to paragraph (4), the items and services described in subparagraph (B) that are furnished to an individual who is under the care of a physician— (i) by an adult day services provider (as defined in paragraph (2)) or by another entity under an arrangement with such an adult day services provider to provide such services; (ii) in accordance with a plan (for furnishing such items and services to such individual) approved and periodically reviewed by such physician