Advancing Access to Telehealth Act
Sponsored By: Representative Dingell
Introduced
Summary
Would make Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent and tie them to the emergency period in section 1135(g)(1)(B) instead of a fixed sunset date.
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- Seniors and Medicare enrollees: Would expand access to telehealth for mental health care, substance use disorder treatment, stroke services, and monthly home dialysis visits by removing some in-person visit requirements.
- Rural patients and community clinics: Would let Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics furnish telehealth starting from the emergency period reference rather than a prior date limit, improving local access.
- Providers: Would broaden which practitioners can furnish and bill for Medicare telehealth and require the Secretary to take actions that support audio-only telehealth where appropriate.
- Program structure: Would update multiple cross-references in Medicare law and replace date-based rules with an emergency-period trigger so the expanded telehealth framework continues beyond the previous time-limited authorization.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Keep expanded Medicare telehealth going
If enacted, Medicare would keep expanded telehealth rules for services on or after the first day of the emergency period in section 1135(g)(1)(B). More types of practitioners, plus Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics, could keep furnishing telehealth. Audio-only visits would count when allowed. In-person visit rules would be removed for home dialysis check-ins, stroke care, substance use care, and mental health. The bill would also remove the phrase "prior to October 1, 2025" so clinic mental health telehealth stays covered after that date.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Dingell
MI • D
Cosponsors
Bergman
MI • R
Sponsored 11/25/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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