Bill Details
HR.1407 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-18 - 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.
Introduced Date
2025-02-18
Policy Area
Health
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would make it easier for Medicare patients to get telehealth care by removing location limits and keeping broader telehealth access in place after the public health emergency ends. In simple terms, it would allow more people to have Medicare-covered video or phone visits from home or other approved places, instead of needing to be in a specific rural area or medical site. The bill is meant to turn temporary telehealth flexibilities into a more permanent part of the Medicare program.
- It changes Medicare rules so geographic limits for telehealth would no longer block coverage in the same way they did before.
- It expands the places where a patient can be when receiving telehealth services, including home in more situations.
- It removes wording that tied these telehealth rules to a short time window after the emergency period ended.
- It applies to the Medicare program by amending the Social Security Act.
Official Summaries
Permanent Telehealth from Home Act
This bill permanently allows any site to serve as an originating site (i.e., the location of the beneficiary) for purposes of Medicare telehealth services, including a beneficiary's home.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1407 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1407
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove geographic
requirements and expand originating sites for telehealth services under
the Medicare program.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 18, 2025
Mr. Buchanan (for himself, Mr. Miller of Ohio, and Mr. Thompson of
California) introduced the following bill; which was 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
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A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove geographic
requirements and expand originating sites for telehealth services under
the Medicare program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Permanent Telehealth from Home
Act''.
SECTION 2. REMOVING GEOGRAPHIC REQUIREMENTS AND EXPANDING ORIGINATING
SITES FOR TELEHEALTH SERVICES UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.
Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)) is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (2)(B)(iii)--
(A) by striking ``In the case that the emergency
period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) ends before
December 31, 2024, with'' and inserting ``With''; and
(B) by striking ``during the period beginning on
the first day after the end of such emergency period
and ending March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``after the
emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B)'';
and
(2) in paragraph (4)(C)(iii)--
(A) by striking ``In the case that the emergency
period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) ends before
December 31, 2024, with'' and inserting ``With''; and
(B) by striking ``during the period beginning on
the first day after the end of such emergency period
and ending March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``after the
emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B)''.
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