Permanent Telehealth from Home Act
Sponsored By: Representative Buchanan
Introduced
Summary
Would remove fixed calendar end dates in Medicare telehealth rules and anchor telehealth eligibility to the emergency period in section 1135(g)(1)(B). This change updates section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act to replace time‑limited emergency language with a standard tied to the broader 1135(g)(1)(B) emergency framework.
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- Medicare beneficiaries, including seniors and people with disabilities, would keep access to telehealth-from-home and to expanded originating-site options beyond the prior 2024–2025 deadlines.
- Health care providers would be able to continue offering and billing for telehealth services that rely on the emergency-era originating-site flexibilities without a preset calendar cutoff.
- Medicare operations would apply the emergency-period test in section 1135(g)(1)(B) when determining telehealth origination eligibility instead of using fixed end dates.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Longer telehealth from home for Medicare
If enacted, Medicare patients could keep using telehealth from home after the federal emergency period. The bill would remove the current deadlines of December 31, 2024 and March 31, 2025. Eligibility would instead follow the emergency-period rules in federal law. Providers could keep offering these visits. This would take effect upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Buchanan
FL • R
Cosponsors
Miller (OH)
OH • R
Sponsored 2/18/2025
Thompson (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 2/18/2025
LaHood
IL • R
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Barrett
MI • R
Sponsored 7/14/2025
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