Pipeline · Bill → Law
Step 1
Introduced
May 17, 2023
Step 2
Referred
Dec 17, 2024
E&C · Ways & Means
Step 3
Committee
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House floor
Step 5
Senate
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Resolve Changes
Step 7
Signed
SummaryCRS Summary
This bill expands coverage of telehealth services under Medicare. Specifically, the bill permanently (1) removes geographic restrictions on originating sites (i.e., the location of the beneficiary), (2) allows the home of the beneficiary to serve as the originating site for all services, (3) allows federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to serve as the distant site (i.e., the location of the health care practitioner), and (4) expands coverage to include audio-only services for evaluation and management and behavioral health services.
Timeline · 5 actions
Dec 17, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 19, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 17, 2023
Introduced in House
May 17, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 17, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.