Telemental Health Care Access Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Bill Cassidy
Introduced
Summary
Expands Medicare telehealth to explicitly include both mental and behavioral health services delivered remotely. This bill would change Medicare’s telehealth wording so behavioral health care is named alongside mental health and a prior textual restriction tied to subparagraph (B) is removed while the statute’s geographic language remains.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More Medicare telehealth for behavioral health
If enacted, the bill would expand Medicare telehealth to cover behavioral health services in addition to mental health. It would remove a prior limiting clause (subparagraph (B)). Providers could bill Medicare for telehealth mental or behavioral health visits. The change would take effect as if included in section 123 of division CC of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260). The bill does not add new funding or change payment rates.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Bill Cassidy
LA • R
Cosponsors
Tina Smith
MN • D
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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