HR 5496 · in committee · significant
HEALTH Act of 2025
- healthcare
What this bill does
- This bill expands Medicare coverage of telehealth services, including audio-only visits from rural and federally qualified health centers.
- Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas and patients using federally qualified health centers are directly affected.
- Medicare pays for these telehealth services using the same rates as in-person care, effective immediately upon enactment.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
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How might expanding audio-only telehealth visits change healthcare access for seniors in rural areas where in-person providers are scarce?
- 02
What evidence supports paying identical rates for telehealth versus in-person visits, and could this affect provider participation?
- 03
Which Medicare beneficiaries might benefit most from this expansion, and are there populations who could be disadvantaged by the policy shift?
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Sponsor · R-PA-15
Glenn Thompson
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House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-09-18
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Legislative timeline
2025-09-18 · house · IntroReferral
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.
2025-09-18 · house · IntroReferral
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.
2025-09-18 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-09-18 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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