Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act
Sponsored By: Senator Marsha Blackburn
Introduced
Summary
Permanently lets Medicare pay for cardiopulmonary and pulmonary rehabilitation delivered to a beneficiary's home by telehealth. It would also expand which clinicians and hospital locations can provide these visits and require standards for treating a home as a provider‑based hospital location.
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- Medicare beneficiaries would be able to receive cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation at home through real‑time audio‑visual telehealth visits. This reduces the need to travel to outpatient clinics for these programs.
- Hospitals and clinicians would be able to treat the home as a provider‑based outpatient location for these services and be eligible telehealth originators. The bill explicitly includes hospitals, physicians, and practitioners in the list of originators.
- Clinicians who may be virtually present would include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists. The Secretary would be required to establish designation standards and the amendments would apply to items and services furnished on or after January 1, 2026.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Medicare home rehab by telehealth
If enacted, Medicare patients needing cardiac or lung rehab would be able to get those visits at home using live audio‑visual telehealth. The bill would treat home rehab visits as Medicare telehealth and allow a home to be designated as a hospital outpatient provider‑based location. The HHS Secretary would have to set standards within 30 days for designating a home as provider‑based. For services furnished on or after January 1, 2026, some geographic originating‑site limits would not apply. The bill would also allow a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist to be virtually present during telehealth rehab visits.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Marsha Blackburn
TN • R
Cosponsors
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 1/24/2025
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 1/29/2025
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/10/2025
Thomas Tillis
NC • R
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Shelley Capito
WV • R
Sponsored 10/21/2025
Roll Call Votes
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