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Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act

What this bill does

  • This bill allows Medicare to permanently cover cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services delivered via telehealth to patients at home.
  • Medicare beneficiaries with heart and lung conditions who need rehabilitation services are affected.
  • The bill has no new cost mechanism; it makes an existing temporary telehealth authority permanent.

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  1. 01

    How would permanent home-based telehealth rehabilitation change access for Medicare beneficiaries in rural versus urban areas?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation delivered remotely produces comparable health outcomes to in-person sessions?

  3. 03

    If this telehealth authority becomes permanent without sunset provisions, how should policymakers monitor whether it continues serving patients effectively?

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Sponsor · R-TN

Marsha Blackburn

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Introduced 2025-01-24

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-24 · senate · IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  2. 2025-01-24 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

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