Telehealth Access for Tribal Communities Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Leger Fernandez
Introduced
Summary
Permanently expands Medicare telehealth access for Indian health programs and urban Indian organizations. It would let eligible beneficiaries get certain Medicare telehealth services at any location in the United States, including their home, and would permit audio-only delivery and payment for specified services identified by HCPCS codes beginning April 1, 2025.
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- Families and patients in tribal communities would be able to receive covered Medicare telehealth care at home anywhere in the U.S., improving access for people who live far from facilities.
- Indian health programs and urban Indian organizations would qualify as originating sites for telehealth and would get Medicare coverage and payment when they furnish the specified telehealth services.
- Physicians and practitioners who are employed by or under contract with those programs or organizations would be able to provide and bill Medicare for the identified telehealth services, including audio-only visits for HCPCS-coded services.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Medicare home and phone telehealth for tribal care
If enacted, Medicare would keep more telehealth options for patients of Indian Health Programs and urban Indian organizations. Starting April 1, 2025, certain listed services could happen from any U.S. location, including your home. Medicare would also cover and pay for some phone-only visits for those services. These rules would apply only to services Medicare already listed by billing codes on the bill’s enactment date, and to clinicians employed or contracted by those programs.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Leger Fernandez
NM • D
Cosponsors
Stansbury
NM • D
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Ruiz
CA • D
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Obernolte
CA • R
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Ansari
AZ • D
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Torres (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Neguse
CO • D
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Davids (KS)
KS • D
Sponsored 8/12/2025
Roll Call Votes
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